This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2020, held in Turin, Italy, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.

The 19 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product and service quality needs. They are organized in topical sections on Agile Software Development.