This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software
Process Improvement and Capability Determination SPICE 2017 held in Palma de Mallorca Spain
in October 2017. The 34 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical
sections: SPI in agile approaches SPI in small settings SPI and assessment SPI and models
SPI and functional safety SPI in various settings SPI and gamification SPI case studies
strategic and knowledge issues in SPI education issues in SPI.