Giuseppe Lami Ph.D. in Information Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2004. Since 2000 he is a researcher at the CNR - Information Science and Technology Institute in Pisa (Italy) where he is the responsible of the “System and Software Evaluation” Laboratory. His principal research interests are: software quality evaluation and software process assessment and improvement. He is an Intacs Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor. He has been involved, as primary project editor, in the publication of ISO/IEC 15504-10 Safety Extension, and he is national delegate at the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7/WG10. He is the President of Automotive SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) Italia. He previously (2003-2006) worked as Resident Affiliate at the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA - USA).