this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th international conference on product-focused software process improvement, profes 2006, held in amsterdam, the netherlands in june 2006. the 26 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 6 reports on workshops and tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. the papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and industrial aspects; they are organized in topical sections on decision support, embedded software and system development, measurement, industrial experience, process improvement, agile development practices, and product line engineering.