LASD@ISD'26

Motivation

While Agile and Lean software development have become mainstream in industry and a strong community has crystallized around this new way of thinking, successful adoption of these practices remains far from straightforward. Projects often require tailoring Agile methods to fit specific contexts, yet this process is complex due to the interdependent nature of practices in frameworks like Scrum. The pandemic-driven shift to remote and hybrid work has added new challenges, forcing formerly co-located teams to adapt their communication and collaboration methods. Organizations must now innovate beyond traditional Agile practices, which often lack explicit remote work guidelines, to maintain team effectiveness in virtual environments. Furthermore, the ongoing return-to-office debates and the stabilization of hybrid work models have created new research opportunities around optimizing Agile ceremonies and collaboration patterns for sustainable, distributed workforce configurations.

Scaling Agile to large, distributed, and multi-team projects continues to be a pressing challenge. While frameworks like SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus have emerged to address the challenges of scaling, their adoption is often fraught with difficulties. Organizations frequently report issues such as framework misalignment with company culture, disruptions to existing management structures, and the inability to fully implement all elements of predefined frameworks. These challenges underscore the urgent need for both practical guidance and theoretical research to support successful large-scale Agile transformations.

Simultaneously, the rapid evolution of technology is redefining the landscape of software development. Generative AI coding tools, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and emerging Agentic AI workflows, are fundamentally altering how developers approach coding, testing, debugging, refactoring, and documentation. Beyond core programming tasks, fine-tuned LLMs and AI Assistants have shown promise in supporting requirements discovery and specification as well as in user research activities. These advancements open exciting new research directions, prompting critical questions about how generative AI can be effectively integrated into Agile workflows, how it alters the skills required for junior developers, and how to ensure ethical and responsible use of AI in software development. The emergence of AI-powered autonomous coding agents and multi-agent systems presents new paradigms for human-AI collaboration within Agile teams, raising questions about pair programming with AI and the evolving role of developers as reviewers and orchestrators.

Topics of Interest

Submissions

We invite research papers in three categories: Full Papers (12 pages), Short Papers (8 pages), and Posters (4 pages). Authors have the option to add a single extra page at a supplementary cost (regardless of the submission category). Papers must be in English and present original, not already published research. Papers should be submitted in the PDF format using the ISD template.

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.

Important Dates

Program

TBA...

Track Chairs

• Przybyłek, Adam
  Ireland, University of Galway, adam.przybylek@gmail.com

• Schön, Eva-Maria
  Germany, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, eva-maria.schoen@hs-emden-leer.de

• Wang, Xiaofeng
  Italy, University of Bolzano, Xiaofeng.Wang@unibz.it

Program Commitee

• 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

• Coady, Jenny
  United Kingdom, Heriot-Watt University

• Daase, Christian
  Germany, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

• Derezinska, Anna
  Poland, Warsaw University of Technology

• Dutta, Arpita
  Singapore, National University of Singapore

• Farré, Carles
  Spain, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

• Farshchian, Babak A.
  Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Francillette, Yannick
  Canada, UQAC

• Gregory, Peggy
  United Kingdom, University of Glasgow

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

• Gustavsson, Tomas
  Sweden, Karlstads universitet

• Haertel, Christian
  Germany, Otto-von-Guericke-University

• Hanslo, Ridewaan
  South Africa, University of Cape Town

• Heng, Samedi
  Belgium, UCLouvain

• Herda, Tomas
  Austria, Austrian Post

• Hryniów, Krzysztof
  Poland, Warsaw University of Technology

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

• Jarzebowicz, Aleksander
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Kapitsaki, Georgia
  Cyprus, University of Cyprus

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

• Kopczyńska, Sylwia
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

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

• Kucharska, Wioleta
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Kucharski, Maciej
  Poland, Gdańsk University of Technology

• Lopez, Lidia
  Spain, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

• Luković, Ivan
  Serbia, University of Belgrade

• 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
  Portugal, University of Porto

• Miler, Jakub
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Mishra, Alok
  Turkey, Atilim University

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

• Mohapatra, Durga Prasad
  India, NIT, Rourkela

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

• Münch, Jürgen
  Germany, Reutlingen University

• Muszyńska, Karolina
  Poland, University of Szczecin

• Nasir, Usman
  Sweden, Blekinge Institute of Technology

• Nawrocki, Jerzy
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

• 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

• Özcan Top, Özden
  Turkey, Middle East Technical University

• Ozkan, Necmettin
  Turkey, Gebze Technical University

• Pereira, Rui Humberto
  Portugal, ISCAP/IPP

• Perkusich, Mirko
  Brazil, VIRTUS

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

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

• Poth, Alexander
  Germany, Volkswagen AG

• Przybylek, Michal
  Poland, Warsaw University

• Puthenpurackal Chakko, Joseph
  India, Valuflow Research

• Ramsin, Raman
  Iran, Sharif University of Technology

• Riel, Andreas
  France, EMIRAcle c/o Grenoble Institute of Technology

• Ristic, Sonja
  Serbia, University of Novi Sad

• Rossi, Bruno
  Czechia, Masaryk University

• Rybola, Zdenek
  Czechia, Czech Technical University

• Salin, Hannes
  Sweden, Swedish Transport Administration

• Sánchez-Gordón, Mary
  Norway, Østfold University College

• Senapathi, Mali
  New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology

• Silva, Alberto
  Portugal, Universidade de Lisboa

• Smialek, Michal
  Poland, Warsaw University of Technology

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

• Souza, Érica
  Brazil, UTFPR

• Spichkova, Maria
  Australia, RMIT University

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

• Swacha, Jakub
  Poland, University of Szczecin

• Taweel, Adel
  United Kingdom, King’s College London/Birzeit University

• 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, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

• Vranić, Valentino
  Slovakia, Pan-European University

• Winter, Dominique
  Germany, HS Emden/Leer

• Wojnicka-Sycz, Elzbieta
  Poland, University of Gdansk

• Wysocki, Włodzimierz
  Poland, West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin

• Zhang, Zheying
  Finland, Tampere University

• Zieris, Franz
  Sweden, Blekinge Institute of Technology