The programme committee welcome high quality contributions to the conference on the following topics:

The application of assessment based improvement to agile development;
The definition and implementation of flexible and agile processes;
Model based improvement;
Determination of risk, based on results of process assessment;
Knowledge and skills for process assessment and improvement;
Assessment approaches applied to agile development;
Lean process improvement;
Definition of process quality characteristics to support process improvement;
Empirical studies on characteristics of high maturity organizations;
Processes and process models applicable to integrated management systems;
Emerging process reference and assessment models;
New concepts for process capability and maturity models;
Use of process assessment in domains outside software, systems engineering and service management;
Conformity assessment approaches and schemes for process assessment;
New measurement and rating frameworks;
The role of situational context in process definition, adaptation and assessment.

The breadth of the application of the standardised approach to process assessment remains a topic of considerable interest, from both a practical and theoretical perspective; and so, accordingly, the SPICE 2017 Conference seeks contributions specifically relating to the following areas of application:

Software, systems engineering and service management;
Automotive systems and software;
Aerospace systems and software;
Medical device and healthcare systems and software;
Innovation, knowledge and technology transfer;
Enterprise systems;
Quality management systems;
IT security;
Safety-related systems and software;
Test process improvement;
Financial institutions and banks;
Small and very small enterprises;
IT and public procurement.