Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 10th International Conference, PROFES 2009, Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback)

Keynote Addresses.- The Consumer Juggernaut: Web-Based and Mobile Applications as Innovation Pioneer.- Software "Best" Practices: Agile Deconstructed.- Evidence Based Software Engineering and Quality Assurance.- Key Questions in Building Defect Prediction Models in Practice.- Investigating the Impact of Software Requirements Specification Quality on Project Success.- Prediction of Software Quality Model Using Gene Expression Programming.- Method for Software Cost Estimating Using Scope Champions.- A Measurement Framework for Team Level Assessment of Innovation Capability in Early Requirements Engineering.- Evidence Based Software Engineering.- Why a CMMI Level 5 Company Fails to Meet the Deadlines?.- Towards Multi-Method Research Approach in Empirical Software Engineering.- The Role of Empirical Evidence for Transferring a New Technology to Industry.- Agile Software Development.- Towards a Framework for Using Agile Approaches in Global Software Development.- Value Creation by Agile Projects: Methodology or Mystery?.- Decision Support for Iteration Scheduling in Agile Environments.- Some Findings Concerning Requirements in Agile Methodologies.- An Exploratory Investigation on Refactoring in Industrial Context.- Absorbing Software Testing into the Scrum Method.- Process Models and SPI.- Learning and Organizational Change in SPI Initiatives.- The Role of Different Approaches in Inspection Process Improvement.- Scenario-Based Assessment of Process Pattern Languages.- Towards a Systematic Metric Based Approach to Evaluate SCAMPI Appraisals.- A New Way to Organize DFX in a Large Organization.- The Tool Coverage of Software Process Improvement Frameworks for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.- Processes.- Improving the Product Documentation Process of a Small Software Company.- Lessons Learnt from the Improvement of Customer Support Processes: A Case Study on Incident Management.- A Decision Model for Supporting Task Allocation Processes in Global Software Development.- Software as a Business.- Software Process Improvement: Supporting the Linking of the Software and the Business Strategies.- Integrating Value and Utility Concepts into a Value Decomposition Model for Value-Based Software Engineering.- On Business-Driven IT Security Management and Mismatches between Security Requirements in Firms, Industry Standards and Research Work.- Industrial Case Studies.- The Waterfall Model in Large-Scale Development.- Towards a Better Understanding of CMMI and Agile Integration - Multiple Case Study of Four Companies.- ERP System Implementation: An Oil and Gas Exploration Sector Perspective.- Workshops.- 11th International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2009) New Media in Transfer and Innovation.- A Half-Day Workshop on "Smarter Investment by Aligning SPI Initiatives, Capabilities and Stakeholder Values".- Tutorials.- Business Alignment: Measurement-Based Alignment of Software Strategies and Business Goals.- Customer Communication Challenges and Solutions in Globally Distributed Agile Software Development.- Tutorial: Case Studies in Software Engineering.