Process improvement approaches fertilised by advances in SPI
Miklós Bíró, Richard Messnarz, Ricardo Colomo‐Palacios · Journal of Software Evolution and Process · 2015
Process improvement approaches fertilised by advances in SPI A typical characterisation of EuroSPI was stated by a company using the following words:'… the biggest value of EuroSPI lies in its function as a European knowledge and experience exchange mechanism for SPI and innovation'.EuroSPI 2 2014 was held 25-27 June 2014 at Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg.In 2014, EuroSPI 2 continued with the open workshop communities aligned with the conference and focusing on specific SPI topics.This included, in 2014, the communities for creating environments supporting innovation and improvement, SPI and product-system-software design, SPICE assessors exchanging experiences about high maturity organisations, SPI and measurement, and SPI and business process innovation.The EuroSPI 2 2014 program had five international workshops on day 1, international key notes on days 2 and 3, more than 60 presentations from leading industry and leading research institutes, and a joint paper award with the American Society of Quality.Among the 26 countries represented at EuroSPI 2 2014, the contributions were highly relevant for the European and world-wide industry also appearing in this special issue.The SPI Manifesto, launched in 2009, created a future vision, the extension of SPI to the systems and product level, which led to the involvement of major European manufacturing firms, the building of workshop communities for specific topics creating further networking opportunities, and contributions including good practices about how to achieve the advances.Systems, software, and services process improvement is meanwhile a major learning and success factor world-wide for staying competitive on a global and dynamically developing world market.2. EUROSPI BOARD Since 1994, the EuroSPI initiative is financed and coordinated by a group of leading applied research companies and quality networks.Since 1998, the following board members have been important drivers for the initiative: