A vital new publication for scientists and researchers in the field, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2007, held in Riga, Latvia in July 2007. The 29 revised full papers, along with four reports on workshops and tutorials and four keynote addresses were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and industrial aspects; they are organized in topical sections for ease of reference.

Keynote Addresses.- Software Development and Globalization.- Software Development Globalization from the Baltic Perspective.- Experiences in Applying Agile Software Development in F-Secure.- People Side of IT Globalization.- Global Software Development.- An Industrial Survey of Software Outsourcing in China.- Understanding Lacking Trust in Global Software Teams: A Multi-case Study.- Utilization of a Set of Software Engineering Roles for a Multinational Organization.- Software Process Improvement.- Software Verification Process Improvement Proposal Using Six Sigma.- Software Development Improvement with SFIM.- SPI-KM - Lessons Learned from Applying a Software Process Improvement Strategy Supported by Knowledge Management.- Organisational Readiness and Software Process Improvement.- Software Process Improvement Through Teamwork Management.- De-motivators of Software Process Improvement: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners' Views.- Software Process Modeling and Evolution.- Defining Software Processes Through Process Workshops: A Multicase Study.- Improving an Industrial Reference Process by Information Flow Analysis: A Case Study.- Connecting the Rationale for Changes to the Evolution of a Process.- Industrial Experiences.- Use of Non-IT Testers in Software Development.- Requirements Management Practices as Patterns for Distributed Product Management.- SPI Consulting in a Level 1 Company: An Experience Report.- Agile Software Development.- On the Effects of Pair Programming on Thoroughness and Fault-Finding Effectiveness of Unit Tests.- An Agile Toolkit to Support Agent-Oriented and Service-Oriented Computing Mechanisms.- Achieving Success in Supply Chain Management Software by Agility.- Software Measurement.- Software Measurement Programs in SMEs - DefiningSoftware Indicators: A Methodological Framework.- Smart Technologies in Software Life Cycle.- Convertibility Between IFPUG and COSMIC Functional Size Measurements.- A Framework for Measuring and Evaluating Program Source Code Quality.- Software Fault Prediction with Object-Oriented Metrics Based Artificial Immune Recognition System.- Simulation and Decision Support.- Operational Planning, Re-planning and Risk Analysis for Software Releases.- Project Cost Overrun Simulation in Software Product Line Development.- E-Service Architecture Selection Based on Multi-criteria Optimization.- Processes and Methods.- A Component-Based Process for Developing Automotive ECU Software.- A Systematic Approach to Service-Oriented Analysis and Design.- Improving the Problem Management Process from Knowledge Management Perspective.- Workshop.- Experience on Applying Quantitative and Qualitative Empiricism to Software Engineering.- Tutorials.- Using Metrics to Improve Software Testing.- Increase ICT Project Success with Concrete Scope Management.- Agile Software Development: Theoretical and Practical Outlook.