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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Process, held in Leipzig, Germany, in May 2008 - colocated with ICSE 2008, the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering.The 33 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process content, process tools and metrics, process management, process representation, analysis and modeling, experience report, and simulation modeling.

Invited Talk
Benefits of Global Software Development: The Known and Unknown	p. 1
Method Engineering: Towards Methods as Services	p. 10
Process Management
Macro-processes Informing Micro-processes: The Case of Software Project Performance	p. 12
Improving Software Risk Management Practices in a Medical Device Company	p. 24
Framework to Evaluate Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations	p. 36
On Deriving Actions for Improving Cost Overrun by Applying Association Rule Mining to Industrial Project Repository	p. 51
Software Multi-project Resource Scheduling: A Comparative Analysis	p. 63
Project Assets Ontology (PAO) to Support Gap Analysis for Organization Process Improvement Based on CMMI v.1.2	p. 76
Process Content
Towards Individualized Requirements Specification Evolution for Networked Software Based on Aspect	p. 88
Requirement-Centric Traceability for Change Impact Analysis: A Case Study	p. 100
Scaling Up Software Architecture Evaluation Processes	p. 112
Process Tools and Metrics
Software Project Similarity Measurement Based on Fuzzy C-Means	p. 123
An Empirically-Based Process to Improve the Practice of Requirement Review	p. 135
Capability Assessment of Individual Software Development Processes Using Software Repositories and DEA	p. 147
Process Representation, Analysis and Modeling
Scoping Software Process Models - Initial Concepts and Experience from Defining Space Standards	p. 160
Detection of Consistent Patterns from Process Enactment Data	p. 173
A Deviation Management System for Handling Software Process Enactment Evolution	p. 186
Assessing Quality Processes with ODC COQUALMO	p. 198
Accurate Estimates without Calibration?	p. 210
Investigating Factors Affecting the Usability of Software Process Descriptions	p. 222
Degree of Agility in Pre-Implementation Process Phases	p. 234
Support IT Service Management with Process Modeling and Analysis	p. 246
The Secret Life of a Process Description: A Look into the Evolution of a Large Process Model	p. 257
Simulation Modeling
Simulating Worst Case Scenarios and Analyzing Their Combined Effect in Operational Release Planning	p. 269
Using Process Simulation to Assess the Test Design Effort Reduction of a Model-Based Testing Approach	p. 282
GENSIM 2.0: A Customizable Process Simulation Model for Software Process Evaluation	p. 294
RVSim: A Simulation Approach to Predict the Impact of Requirements Volatility on Software Project Plans	p. 307
Identifying Key Success Factors for Globally Distributed Software Development Project Using Simulation: A Case Study	p. 320
Hybrid Modeling of Test-and-Fix Processes in Incremental Development	p. 333
Reflections on 10 Years of Software Process Simulation Modeling: A Systematic Review	p. 345
Experience Report
Integrating Joint Reviews with Automotive SPICE Assessments Results	p. 357
Quantitatively Managing Defects for Iterative Projects: An Industrial Experience Report in China	p. 369
An Investigation of Software Development Productivity in China	p. 381
Optimized Software Process for Fault Handling in Global Software Development	p. 395
Measuring and Comparing the Adoption of Software Process Practices in the Software Product Industry	p. 407
Author Index	p. 421
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