The Eight International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Impro- ment (PROFES 2007) brought together researchers and industrial practitioners to report new research results and exchange experiences and findings in the area of process and product improvement.

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.