Process improvement is not necessarily about CMM or CMMI, Six Sigma or ISO. Process improvement is about whatever can give high return in profitability and customer satisfaction with the resources your organization can afford. It is about whatever formal or informal methods that can best fit within your organization's culture. That is how ICSPI approaches software process improvement.

Due to the great success of ICSPI in the past and the overwhelming interest by the SPI community, The International Institute for Software Process (IISP) and Software Dimensions are proud to host the fourth International Conference on Software Process Improvement. ICSPI 2007 in Orlando, FL the week of November 12 - 16th, 2007. 

ICSPI promises to focus only on practical methods to improve software processes around the organization, independent of any specific assessment model. The ICSPI 2007 program features presentations by world leading authorities and practitioners in software process improvement.

Program at a Glance

Monday
November 12, 2007
Tutorials
Tuesday/Wednesday
November 13 & 14, 2007
Conferences
Thursday
November 15, 2007
Tutorials
Friday
November 16, 2007
Tutorials
M1: Improving Performance through Standards and Processes
Barbara Ainsworth


Keynote Presentations By:


Watts Humphrey
"The Ideal Software Project"


Michael West
"Where did all the process improvement go?"

Vendor Showcase

45 track presentations by SPI practitioners


H1: Defining Effective Process and Performance Goals and Measures
Michael West
M2: Low Overhead Software Process Improvement Methods
Robin Goldsmith
H2: Establishing the SQA Function
Barbara Ainsworth
F2: Estimating Resource-Constrained Projects
Robin Goldsmith
M3: Planning a successful SPI project
Alan Koch
H3: Meaningful Software Measurements
Robin Goldsmith
F3: Using Metrics in Life Cycle Software Quality Assurance
Alfred Sorkowitz
M4: Software Quality Assurance Methods and Techniques
Dr. Magdy Hanna
H4: Defect Prevention: How to do it right the First Time
Nidhi Srivastava
F4: Improving Project Management Results through Process Management
Barbara Ainsworth

H5: Managing Incremental and Highly Iterative Software Projects
Dr. Timothy Korson
F5: Building the Requirement Management Process
Michael Yudanin
M6:Managing Outsource/Offshore Projects
Jerry Durant

F6: Implementing an Effective Measurement Program
Tom Cagley