This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2006, held in Amsterdam, June 2006. The volume presents 26 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers together with 6 reports on workshops and tutorials. The papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and industrial aspects, organized in topical sections on decision support, embedded software and system development, measurement, process improvement, and more.

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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".