LASD@ISD'25

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

TBA...

Track Chairs

• Neumann, Michael
  Germany, Hochschule Hannover, michael.neumann@hs-hannover.de

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

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

Program Commitee

• Aguiar, Ademar
  Portugal, University of Porto

• Ahmad, Muhammad Ovais
  Sweden, Karlstad University

• 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

• da Silva, Tiago Silva
  Brazil, Federal University of São Paulo

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

• Dutta, Arpita
  Singapore, National University of Singapore

• Edison, Henry
  Sweden, Blekinge Institute of Technology

• Farré, Carles
  Spain, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

• Francillette, Yannick
  Canada, UQAC

• García-Mireles, Gabriel
  Mexico, Universidad de Sonora

• Gregory, Peggy
  United Kingdom, University of Glasgow

• Griva, Anastasia
  Ireland, University of Galway

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

• Gustavsson, Tomas
  Sweden, Karlstads universitet

• Hanslo, Ridewaan
  South Africa, University of Johannesburg

• 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

• Katic, Marija
  United Kingdom, University of London

• Kopczynska, 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, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

• Lunesu, Ilaria
  Italy, University of Cagliari

• Mahnic, Viljan
  Slovenia, University of Ljubljana

• 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

• Miller, Gloria
  Germany, IEEE Member

• Misra, Sanjay
  Norway, Institute For Energy Technology

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

• Muszyńska, Karolina
  Poland, University of Szczecin

• Münch, Jürgen
  Germany, Reutlingen University

• Nawrocki, Jerzy
  Poland, Poznan University of Technology

• Ng, Yen Ying
  Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus University

• 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

• Pereira, Rui Humberto
  Portugal, ISCAP/IPP

• 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

• Ramsin, Raman
  Iran, Sharif University of Technology

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

• Rossi, Bruno
  Czechia, Masaryk University

• Rybola, Zdenek
  Czechia, Czech Technical University

• Salin, Hannes
  Sweden, Swedish Transport Administration

• Schmidt, Jan-Hendrik
  Germany, Technical University of Darmstadt

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

• Sikorski, Marcin
  Poland, Gdansk University of Technology

• 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

• Stettina, Christoph Johann
  Netherlands, Leiden University / Centre for Innovation

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

• 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

• 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

• Wojnicka-Sycz, Elzbieta
  Poland, University of Gdansk

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