Workshop: Good Process Improvement Practices (all Branches)

 

Workshop-Moderators


Thomas Wegner
ZF TRW, Germany
Main Moderator

Elli Goergiadou
Middlesex University, UK
Co-Moderator

Eva Breske
BOSCH Engineering GmbH, Germany

Kerstin Siakas
International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece, and Vaasa University, Finland

Thomas Schweigert
Expleo Group, Germany

Mirna Munoz
CIMAT, Mexico

 
PI Manifesto - Good Process Improvment Practices (all Branches)

The studies presented this year are valid for a PI manifesto in general and not only specific to Software. Therefore we expand the manifesto for further branches and content, starting from 2021 onwards.

Eleven years since the inception of the SPI Manifesto and ten years since its publication many socio-technical developments have come about. Cloud, Containers and Microservices, Open Source Software production and mobile devices are now all far more prevalent. The Automotive Industry, and other large and complex systems like e-Government, e-Health, Travel and so on, moved to using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In addition to socio-economic challenges, these developments present legal, ethical, political, environmental and demographic challenges. As the late Rory O Connor emphasised: because organisations operate as parts of a larger ecosystem and society all these socio-technical and other factors prompt for analysis with the aim of constantly re-aligning the organisational strategy to shifting business environments to survey, stay competitive, add business value and achieve sustainability! The SPI Manifesto has always supported industry in their effort to understand, adapt and improve their processes. In this workshop, held jointly by academics and practitioners, we will debate and analyse the challenges and opportunities for quality improvements, based on the premise that an improved process results in quality improvement of the resulting products and services. Using a multidimensional approach and the STEEPLED (Sociocultural, Technical, Economic, Environmental, Political, Legal, Ethical and Demographic) analysis tool, we will share ideas and experiences which will be encapsulated the findings in concrete proposals for the adaptation, evolution and extension of the SPI Manifesto.
Please participate in the SPI manifesto survey about how social factors influence the success (values and principles). This will be used as input to the SPI workshop.

Also an initiative has been started to build an SPI case study and knolwedge library for EuroSPI. On the one hand a SPI database of case studies will be set up (shared work of Egypt SPI Consortiu, Japanses SPI consortium and planning to involve Poznan Supercomputing centre). And secondly ISCN is setting up a NID server (Networked Interactive Digital Material) supported by Prof. Hermann Maurer, IICM, TU Graz, to store knowledge and link knowledge from important SPI materials / books. Every EuroSPI conference will deliver y a compendoum of presentations like a book and link all relevent studies and data in the cloud from there, as a starting point.

And we also support the strategy assessment tool based on ISO TR 33014 for improvability analysis of orgaisattions, originally developed by the Danish partner Whitebox.

Workshop Program 05.09.2024

Workshop: Good Process Improvement Practices (all Branches)
16.00 - 18.00
A multidimensional perspective of IT systems failures and their human consequences – the case of the UK Post-Office IT Horizon system failure and the most widespread miscarriage of justice
Elli Georgiadou, Harjinder Rahanu, Middlesex University London, London, UK, Kerstin Siakas, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece, and University of Vaasa, Finland, Errikos Siakas, National Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece, Dimitrios Siakas, Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finnland, Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples, Solent University, Southampton, UK
A Model for Designing Organizational Change Plans
Otto Vinter, Roskilde University, Denmark, Peter H. Carstensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Play4SPI
Tomas Schweigert, Bettina Frischhut, Expleo Technology Germany GmbH
Playing SPI games
Interactive session with Tomas Schweigert - Play 4 SPI
till 19.00
Attendees go by public transport and leave at Gartenstrasse (line 27) or at Scheidplatz (line 12). From there it is 550 m walking through the famous Luitpoltpark.
19.00 - 23.30
19.00 - 19.30 Arrival at the Bamberger House
19.30 - 20.15 Classical Music Event 

Karol Danis and Anton Bashynskyi  are exceptional musicians who play classical music at EuroSPI social events since 2021 and have both won a number of international prizes. See the profile of Karol Danis and of Anton Bashynskyi.

20.30 - 23.30 Gala-Diner at the Bamberger House.
 

Workshop Program 06.09.2024

Workshop: Good Process Improvement Practices (all Branches)
08.00 - 09.00
Registration
08.00 - 09.00
Registration
09.00 - 09.45
09.45 - 10.30
Room: Plenary
Key Note 6: Gamification Framework in Automotive SW Development Environment to Increase Teams Engagement and Competencies
Samer Sameh is a principal ASPICE Assessor, SAFe program consultant and Valeo senior process improvement manager, VALEO, Egypt
10.30 - 11.00
Room: Exhibition Space
Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.00
Case Study: Game-Based Learning of SPI Manifesto - Behavior and Attitude Transformation Using Small-step Good Practices in the Sugoroku Game
So NORIMATSU, Makoto OOMORI, Keiko MIZUTA, Aiichiro NIWA, Yoshiyuki ANAN, Kiyoshi ENDO, Japan Software Process Improvement Consortium (JASPIC), Tokyo, Japan
Key Note Triggered Continued Discussion - Gamification Framework in Automotive SW Development Environment to Increase Teams Engagement and Competencies
Khaled Badr, Mourad Mounir, Software Excellence, Leading OEM, Berlin, Germany, Samer Sameh, Valeo, Egypt
12.00 - 13.00
Shorter Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30
Rory O Connor Paper Award and Best paper Award together with USA partnership.
 

 

Additional Information

Key Contributors

Key contributions to the Workshop will come from European initiatives which developed best practices for SPI. However, the workshop is open to include experts who are willing to share their best practices with the community. We invite experts from knowledge areas like

• Good practices / experiences with the implementation of improvement programs
• Bad practices / experiences (what not to do) with the implementation of improvement programs
• Standards / programs supporting improvement coaching concepts
• Areas where improvement is most difficult to manage and how to solve this
• Key success factors
• Metrics to be used for tracking improvement programs

to share, discuss, and publish their experiences with EuroAsiaSPI.
Still the good/bad practices library needs to grow and we must constantly learn and also update the concept of programs like SPI manager.

Interactive Workshop Approach

From 2018 onwards all submitted papers in the book with reference the SPI manifesto or suggest extensions to the existing SPI manifesto. These new inputs will be considered in this workshop.
An editorial board (Gabriele Sauberer, Paul Clarke, So Norimatsu) will analyse the SPI Manifeso inputs in the papers before the workshop and contribute this an an input to the workshop.
In the interactive workshop then an idea for an extension of the existing SPI Manifesto terminology is elaborated.
The idea is to continuously elaborate further the terminology underlying the SPI term.
See also the SPI Manifesto and SPI terminology strategy of EuroAsiaSPI².