The 19th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2018) hosted two workshops and three tutorials. The workshops and tutorials complemented and enhanced the main conference program, offering a wider knowledge perspective around the conference topics. The topics of the two workshops were Hybrid Development Approaches in Software Systems Development (HELENA) and Managing Quality in Agile & Rapid Software Development Processes (QUaSD). The topics of the tutorials were The human factor in agile transitions – Using the personas concept in agile coaching, Process Management 4.0 – Best Practices, and Domain-specific languages for specification, development, and testing of autonomous systems. The workshop organizers would like to thank all persons that organized the workshop or contributed to the workshops as well as the presenters of the tutorials. The workshops and tutorials provided interesting forums for discussing ideas, presenting novel work, learning and networking. In the following the workshop and tutorials are summarized based on the content of the respective workshop and tutorial web descriptions. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018.