Software Process Improvement 11th European Conference, EuroSPI 2004, Trondheim, Norway, November 10-12, 2004. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceeding of the 11th European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI 2004, held in Trondheim, Norway in November 2004.
The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile methods and global software development, software process improvement techniques, studies of software process improvement, knowledge management, and effort estimation.

On-Site Customer in an XP Project: Empirical Results from a Case Study.- Extreme Programming: Reassessing the Requirements Management Process for an Offsite Customer.- Global Software Development Project Management – Distance Overcoming.- Towards Comprehensive Experience-Based Decision Support.- Discovering the Relation Between Project Factors and Project Success in Post-mortem Evaluations.- Serious Insights Through Fun Software-Projects.- Software Process Improvement in Small and Medium Sized Software Enterprises in Eastern Finland: A State-of-the-Practice Study.- An Experimental Replica to Validate a Set of Metrics for Software Process Models.- Using Measurement Data in a TSPSM Project.- Software Thinking Improvement Learning Performance Improving Lessons.- The Adoption of an Electronic Process Guide in a Company with Voluntary Use.- Knowledge Mapping: A Technique for Identifying Knowledge Flows in Software Organisations.- Determining the Improvement Potential of a Software Development Organization Through Fault Analysis: A Method and a Case Study.- Root Cause Analysis and Gap Analysis – A Tale of Two Methods.- Empirical Evaluation of Two Requirements Prioritization Methods in Product Development Projects.- Project Effort Estimation: Or, When Size Makes a Difference.- A Comparison of Size Estimation Techniques Applied Early in the Life Cycle.- Model and Process for Timely Progress Reporting in Use Case Driven Software Development.