This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Product-Focused
Software Process Improvement PROFES 2016 held in Trondheim Norway in November 2016. The 24
revised full papers presented together with 21 short papers 1 keynote 3 invited papers 5
workshop papers. 2 doctoral symposium papers and 6 tutorials were carefully reviewed and
selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Early Phases in
Software Engineering Organizational Models Architecture Methods and Tools Verification and
Validation Process Improvement Speed and Agility in System Engineering Requirements and
Quality Process and Repository Mining Business Value and Benefits Emerging Research Topics
and Future of Computing.