SPI Manifesto Ambassadors Mission

The experience shows that not all assessments lead to a sustainable improvement. Capability assessments are used to analyse the current status and with a status information which is valid only a certain period. However, the findings of such assessments are not considered in internal improvement programs, or in case of improvement assessments the proposed solutions are not implemented due to missing practical solutions or missing support from management.
Also, too often companies achieve a good result in one project instead of trying to achieve an improvement that can help to improve all projects in the organisation.
Additionally, not all assessments result in a list of practical improvement actions and the latter are not tracked until closure.

This is why in 2009 the SPI Manifesto has been created to emphasize the key success factors to make improvement work and publish principles and values as a guidance. Every year EuroSPI as a workshop about this improvement topic and the SPI manifesto. Ambassadors are experts who are willing to support an SPI (System, Software, Service Process Improvement ) Manifesto.

List of SPI Manifesto Ambassadors

Antoni Mesquida

University of the Balleares, Spain

Bernhard Sechser

Process Fellows, Germany

Christoph Matthies

Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

Dietmar Winkler

University of Technology Vienna, Austria

Georg Macher

University of Technology Graz, Austria

Ilgi Keskin Kaynak

Aselsan, Turkey

Jorn Johansen

Whitebox, Denmark

Kiyoshi Endo

JASPIC and Hitachi, Japan

Onur Kaynak

Aselsan, Turkey

Paul Ckarke

Dublin City University, Ireland

Richard Messnarz

ISCN GesmbH, Austria

Samer Sameh

VALEO, Egypt

Thomas Fehlmann

Euro Project Office AG, Switzerland

Ulas Gulec

Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey

Xabier Larrucea

Tecnalia, Spain

Andreas Riel

Grenoble INP, France

Alexander Much

Elektrobit AG, Germany

Antonia Mas

University of the Balleares, Spain

Elli Georgiadou

Middlesex University, UK

Eva Breske

BOSCH Engineering GmbH, Germany

Ebru Gokalp

Baskent University, Turkey

Gabriele Sauberer

Termnet, Austria

Gilbert Regan

Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

Helmut Martin

Virtual Vehicle, Graz, Austria

Jakub Stolfa

TUO Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Jan Pries-Heje

Roskilde University, Denmark

Jezreel Mejia

CIMAT, University of Zacatecas, Mexico

Jürgen Dobaj

University of Technology Graz, Austria

Maria Clara Gomez Alvarez

Universidad de Medellin, Colombia

Maria Stefanova Pavlova

CITT Global, Bulgaria

Miklos Biro

Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria

Miran Rodic

University of Maribor, Slovenia

Mirna Munoz

CIMAT, University of Zacatecas, Mexico

Rainer Dreves

DrSPICE, Germany

Ralf Mayer

BOSCH Engineering GmbH, Germany

Risto Nevalainen

FiSMA, Finland

Svatopluk Stolfa

TUO Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Tomas Schweigert

Expleo Group, Germany

Barbara Gallina

Mälardalen University, Sweden

More ambassadors will be posted...