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.