LASD@SAC'26

Motivation

While agile and lean software development has already become mainstream in industry and a strong community has crystallized around the new way of thinking, making the transition to the new mindset is still challenging for many project managers. Besides, as the vast majority of software development projects are unique, agile methods often need to be tailored to accommodate specific situations. However, method tailoring is not trivial and poses serious challenges for practitioners. Indeed, one of the most distinctive features of Scrum is that its practices are not independent, but instead are very tightly coupled and synergistic.

Furthermore, Scrum, XP, and Kanban were originally designed for small, single teams and do not provide guidance on dealing with scaling issues, while the last decade has seen the spread of agile into large-scale and distributed projects. To help companies in large-scale transformations, several agile scaling frameworks have been proposed. These off-the-shelf solutions incorporate predefined workflow patterns to deal with issues related to the large number of teams, inter-team coordination, and lack of up-front architecture. Nevertheless, numerous challenges while adopting off-the-shelf frameworks have been reported, including a mismatch between framework and organization, changes in management structure, changes in company policies, and the impossibility of fully implementing the whole framework at once.

On top of that, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced co-located teams, who relied on face-to-face communication for work coordination, to transition into a remote work environment. Since agile methods lack guidelines for remote work, it falls upon the agile community to develop systematic solutions for remote agile teams.

Currently, we are witnessing a pervasive hype surrounding generative AI coding tools that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs). These tools enable developers to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, refactoring, and documentation processes. Additionally, fine-tuned LLMs hold the potential for enhancing non-programming tasks like user story refinement, estimation, and prioritization. These remarkable advancements not only evoke excitement but also open up new research directions to further explore and optimize the integration of generative AI tools within the realm of Agile Software Development.

Topics of Interest

Submissions

Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Papers should be submitted in the PDF format using the ACM-SAC proceedings format via the START submission system. Full papers are limited to 8 pages with the option (at an extra charge) to add 2 more pages.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. To facilitate the double-blind reviewing, authors are kindly requested to provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors' personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors' identity.

Papers that receives positive reviews but are not accepted due to space limitation are invited for the poster session. The length of poster papers is 2 pages (included in the registration) + 1 page (at an extra charge).

Upon paper acceptance, prospective authors must provide a camera-ready version which takes into account the review comments. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM and also available online through the ACM Digital Library.

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy must present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. Authors who cannot make on-site presentations due to travel or health restrictions may request to present their materials online. No-presentation of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital libray.

Student Research Competition (SRC)

Students are invited to submit research abstracts (maximum of 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at the SAC 2026 website.

Important Dates

Program

TBA...

Track Chairs

• Gustavsson, Tomas
  Sweden, Karlstads universitet, tomas.gustavsson@kau.se

• Jarzebowicz, Aleksander
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology, aleksander.jarzebowicz@pg.edu.pl

• Przybyłek, Adam (Lead Chair)
  Ireland, University of Galway, adam.przybylek@gmail.com

Program Commitee

• Aguiar, Ademar
  Portugal, University of Porto

• Ahmad, Muhammad Ovais
  Sweden, Karlstad University

• Almeida, Fernando
  Portugal, ISPGAYA & INESC TEC

• Bagnato, Alessandra
  France, Softeam

• Barata, João
  Portugal, University of Coimbra

• Behutiye, Woubshet
  Finland, University of Oulu

• Buchalcevova, Alena
  Czechia, University of Economics

• Buchmann, Robert Andrei
  Romania, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca

• Chmielarz, Witold
  Poland, University of Warsaw; Faculty of Management

• Derezinska, Anna
  Poland, Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology

• Dutta, Arpita
  Singapore, National University of Singapore

• Francillette, Yannick
  Canada, UQAC

• Gregory, Peggy
  United Kingdom, University of Glasgow

• Guerra, Eduardo
  Brazil, Free University of Bolzen-Bolzano

• Heng, Samedi
  Belgium, UCLouvain

• Herda, Tomas
  Austria, Austrian Post

• Herold, Sebastian
  Sweden, Karlstad University, Department of Computer Science

• Hryniów, Krzysztof
  Poland, Warsaw University of Technology

• Janes, Andrea
  Italy, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

• Jedrzejewski, Felix
  Sweden, Blekinge Institute of Technology

• Kapitsaki, Georgia
  Cyprus, University of Cyprus

• Katic, Marija
  Serbia, School of Computing, Union University, Belgrade, Serbia

• Kopczynska, Sylwia
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

• Kropp, Martin
  Switzerland, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

• Kucharski, Maciej
  Poland, Gdańsk University of Technology

• Lopez, Lidia
  Spain, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

• Luković, Ivan
  Serbia, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

• Lunesu, Ilaria
  Italy, University of Cagliari

• Mangalaraj, George
  United States, Western Illinois University

• Marcinkowski, Bartosz
  Poland, University of Gdansk

• Marek, Krzysztof
  Poland, Warsaw University of Technology

• Maślankowski, Jacek
  Poland, University of Gdańsk

• Melegati, Jorge
  Italy, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

• Miler, Jakub
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Mishra, Alok
  Turkey, Atilim University, Incek 06836, Ankara - Turkey

• Misra, Sanjay
  Norway, Institute For Energy Technology

• Moalagh, Morteza
  Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Morales Trujillo, Miguel Ehécatl
  New Zealand, University of Canterbury

• Muszyńska, Karolina
  Poland, University of Szczecin

• Münch, Jürgen
  Germany, Reutlingen University

• Neumann, Michael
  Germany, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover

• Ng, Yen Ying
  Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

• Obwegeser, Nikolaus
  Switzerland, Bern University of Applied Sciences

• Ochodek, Mirosław
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

• Oriol, Marc
  Spain, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

• Ozkan, Necmettin
  Turkey, Gebze Technical University

• Özcan Top, Özden
  Turkey, Information Systems, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

• Pereira, Rui Humberto
  Portugal, ISCAP/IPP

• Perkusich, Angelo
  Brazil, Electrical Engineering Department, Federal University of Campina Grande

• Perkusich, Mirko
  Brazil, VIRTUS

• Pinna, Andrea
  Italy, Università di Cagliari

• Pohl, Matthias
  Germany, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

• Poniszewska-Maranda, Aneta
  Poland, Institute of Information Technology, Lodz University of Technology

• Poth, Alexander
  Germany, Volkswagen AG

• Przybylek, Michal
  Poland, Warsaw University

• Puthenpurackal Chakko, Joseph
  Belgium, India, University of Antwerp, Valuflow Research

• Ramsin, Raman
  Iran, Sharif University of Technology

• Ristic, Sonja
  Serbia, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences

• Rossi, Bruno
  Czechia, Masaryk University

• Salin, Hannes
  Sweden, Swedish Transport Administration

• Schön, Eva-Maria
  Germany, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer

• Senapathi, Mali
  New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology

• Silva, Alberto
  Portugal, Universidade de Lisboa

• Silva da Silva, Tiago
  Brazil, ICT/UNIFESP - Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia

• Smialek, Michal
  Poland, Warsaw University of Technology

• Souza, Érica
  Brazil, UTFPR

• Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, Anna
  Poland, University of Economics in Katowice

• Spichkova, Maria
  Australia, RMIT University

• Staegemann, Daniel
  Germany, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

• Strode, Diane
  New Zealand, Visiting Research Fellow, The Open University UK

• Swacha, Jakub
  Poland, University of Szczecin

• Sánchez-Gordón, Mary
  Norway, Østfold University College

• Theobald, Sven
  Germany, Fraunhofer IESE

• Tobisch, Franziska
  Germany, TUM

• Tsilionis, Konstantinos
  Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology

• Tuncel, Doruk
  Germany, Siemens AG

• Utz, Wilfrid
  Germany, OMILAB gGmbH

• Vara, Juan Manuel
  Spain, Computer Science & Statistics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

• Vranić, Valentino
  Slovakia, Pan-European University

• Wautelet, Yves
  Belgium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

• Wiedemann, Anna
  Switzerland, Bern University of Applied Sciences

• Wojnicka-Sycz, Elzbieta
  Poland, University of Gdansk