Editorial: European Systems and Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI)

Software plays a crucial role in the world today. Since 1994, the EuroSPI initiative presents and discusses results from systems, software and services process improvement and innovation (SPI) projects in industry and research, focusing on the gained benefits and the criteria for success. EuroSPI is a community that supported the founding of the SPI Manifesto. This work presents a set of 4 values and 14 principles that gives expression to state-of-the-art knowledge on SPI. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring an overview of successful cases as well as methods to enable SPI through the lens of EuroSPI and the SPI Manifesto.