This was the ?rst year that the European Software Process Improvement Conference EuroSPI had a separate research track with its own proceedings.The EuroSPI conf- ence is in its eleventh year, and has become the main meeting place in Europe for the software industry and academia to discuss software process improvement. The conf- ence deals with software process improvementin a broad sense, investigatingorgani- tional issues as well as methods and tools for software process improvement. EuroSPIisaninitiative?nancedbyaconsortiumofNordicresearchcentersanduser networks(SINTEF, DELTAandSTTF), ASQF,...