LASD@ISD'24

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

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

Track Chairs

• Przybyłek, Adam
  Poland, Gdańsk University of Technology, adam.przybylek@gmail.com

• Rodrigues da Silva, Alberto
  Portugal, University of Lisbon, alberto.silva@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Program Commitee

• Aguiar, Ademar
  Portugal, University of Porto

• Ahmad, Muhammad Ovais
  Sweden, Karlstad University

• Almeida, Fernando
  Portugal, University of Porto

• Aziz Butt, Shariq
  Pakistan, superior university

• Bagnato, Alessandra
  France, Softeam

• Barata, João
  Portugal, University of Coimbra

• Behutiye, Woubshet
  Finland, University of Oulu

• Buchalcevova, Alena
  Czech Republic, University of Economics

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

• Da Silva, Tiago Silva
  Brazil, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

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

• Dutta, Arpita
  Singapore, National University of Singapore

• Francillette, Yannick
  Canada, UQAC

• García-Mireles, Gabriel
  Mexico, Universidad de Sonora

• Giaro, Krzysztof
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Gorschek, Tony
  Sweden, Blekinge Institute of Technology

• Gregory, Peggy
  United Kingdom, University of Glasgow

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

• Hanslo, Ridewaan
  South Africa, University of Pretoria

• Hawryszkiewycz, Igor
  Australia, University of Technology, Sydney

• Heng, Samedi
  Belgium, UCLouvain

• Huzar, Zbigniew
  Poland, Wroclaw University of Technology

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

• Jarzebowicz, Aleksander
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Johansson, Björn
  Sweden, Linköping University

• Kapitsaki, Georgia
  Cyprus, University of Cyprus

• Karagiannis, Dimitris
  Austria, University of Vienna

• Karpus, Aleksandra
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Katic, Marija
  United Kingdom, University of London

• Konorski, Jerzy
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Kopczyńska, Sylwia
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

• Kosiuczenko, Piotr
  Poland, Military University of Technology

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

• Lassenius, Casper
  Finland, Aalto University

• Mahnič, Viljan
  Slovenia, University of Ljubljana

• Mangalaraj, George
  United States, Western Illinois University

• Marcinkowski, Bartosz
  Poland, University of Gdansk

• Matthies, Christoph
  Germany, University of Potsdam

• Maślankowski, Jacek
  Poland, University of Gdańsk

• Miler, Jakub
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Mira da Silva, Miguel
  Portugal, Instituto Superior Técnico

• Mishra, Alok
  Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Misra, Sanjay
  Norway, Institute For Energy Technology

• Mohapatra, Durga Prasad
  India, NIT, Rourkela

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

• Muhammad, Waseem
  Finland, University of Jyväskylä

• Muszyńska, Karolina
  Poland, University of Szczecin

• Nawrocki, Jerzy
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

• Neumann, Michael
  Germany, Hochschule Hannover

• Ng, Yen Ying
  Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus University

• Obwegeser, Nikolaus
  Switzerland, Bern University of Applied Sciences

• Ochodek, Mirosław
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

• Ozkan, Necmettin
  Turkey, Gebze Technical University

• Pereira, Rui Humberto
  Portugal, ISCAP/IPP

• 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

• 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
  Czech Republic, Masaryk University

• Rybola, Zdenek
  Czech Republic, Czech Technical 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

• Sikorski, Marcin
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• Smialek, Michal
  Poland, Warsaw University of Technology

• Souza, Érica
  Brazil, UTFPR

• Spichkova, Maria
  Australia, RMIT University

• Strode, Diane
  New Zealand, Whitireia Polytechnic

• Stålhane, Tor
  Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Swacha, Jakub
  Poland, University of Szczecin

• Sánchez-Gordón, Mary
  Norway, Østfold University College

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

• Theobald, Sven
  Germany, Fraunhofer IESE

• 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, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava

• Wautelet, Yves
  Belgium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

• Winter, Dominique
  Germany, HS Emden/Leer

• Zhang, Zheying
  Finland, Tampere University