Keynote Addresses -- Processes and the Software Business -- Controlling the Chaos of the CMMI Continuous Representation -- Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Literature Reviews -- Expanding the Scope of Software Product Families: Problems and Alternative Approaches -- Decision Support -- Defining the Process for Making Software System Modernization Decisions -- Introducing Tool Support for Retrospective Analysis of Release Planning Decisions -- A Qualitative Evaluation Method for Business Process Tools -- Embedded Software and System Development -- An Effective Source Code Review Process for Embedded Software -- Troubleshooting Large-Scale New Product Development Embedded Software Projects -- Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company -- Measurement -- Assessing Software Product Maintainability Based on Class-Level Structural Measures -- Integrating Reuse Measurement Practices into the ERP Requirements Engineering Process -- Process Definition and Project Tracking in Model Driven Engineering -- Industrial Experiences -- Difficulties in Establishing a Defect Management Process: A Case Study -- A Case Study on the Success of Introducing General Non-construction Activities for Project Management and Planning Improvement -- The Concerns of Prototypers and Their Mitigating Practices: An Industrial Case-Study -- An Industrial Case Study on the Choice Between Language Customization Mechanisms -- Preliminary Results from a Survey of Multimedia Development Practices in Australia -- An ISO 9001:2000 Certificate and Quality Awards from Outside – What’s Inside? – A Case Study -- Process Improvement -- Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives: An Empirical Study -- Using Linear Regression Models to Analyse the Effect of Software Process Improvement -- Taba Workstation: Supporting Software Process Deployment Based on CMMI and MR-MPS.BR -- Analysis of an Artifact Oriented Test Process Model and of Testing Aspects of CMMI -- Agile Development Practices -- The Impact of Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development on Package Dependencies in Object-Oriented Design — An Experiment -- Applying an Agility/Discipline Assessment for a Small Software Organisation -- Lessons Learned from an XP Experiment with Students: Test-First Needs More Teachings -- An Empirical Study on Design Quality Improvement from Best-Practice Inspection and Pair Programming -- Product Line Engineering -- A Variability-Centric Approach to Instantiating Core Assets in Product Line Engineering -- Improving the Development of e-Business Systems by Introducing Process-Based Software Product Lines -- Assessing Requirements Compliance Scenarios in System Platform Subcontracting -- Short Papers -- Software Inspections in Practice: Six Case Studies -- Productivity of Test Driven Development: A Controlled Experiment with Professionals -- Results and Experiences from an Empirical Study of Fault Reports in Industrial Projects -- Software Process Improvement: A Road to Success -- Characterization of Runaway Software Projects Using Association Rule Mining -- A Framework for Selecting Change Strategies in IT Organizations -- Building Software Process Line Architectures from Bottom Up -- Refinement of Software Architectures by Recursive Model Transformations -- A UML-Based Process Meta-model Integrating a Rigorous Process Patterns Definition -- Ad Hoc Versus Systematic Planning of Software Releases – A Three-Staged Experiment -- A Software Process Tailoring System Focusing to Quantitative Management Plans -- An Extreme Approach to Automating Software Development with CBD, PLE and MDA Integrated -- Workshops -- Experiences and Methods from Integrating Evidence-Based Software Engineering into Education -- Workshop on Embedded Software Development in Collaboration -- Tutorials -- Software Product Metrics – Goal-Oriented Software Product Measurement -- Art and Science of System Release Planning -- Multiple Risk Management Process Supported by Ontology -- Get Your Experience Factory Ready for the Next Decade: Ten Years After “How to Build and Run One”.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2006, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in June 2006. The 26 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 6 reports on workshops and tutorials 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 on decision support, embedded software and system development, measurement, industrial experience, process improvement, agile development practices, and product line engineering.