JSEP 2015 - Special Issue on Recent Advances in Agile Software Product Development

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Category JSEP 2015

Deadline: May 06, 2015 | Date: September 06, 2015

Venue/Country: Online, Online

Updated: 2014-12-13 18:13:33 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Recent Advances in Agile Software Product Development

Call for Papers

Agility is the ability of an enterprise to assimilate environmental change and acknowledge efficiently and effectively to that change. Agility will have causes and effects beyond the enterprise's immediate organizational boundaries. Agility is a business imperative, not just a technological one. The agile movement has made enormous strides in the last decade, greatly improving software delivery and creating more satisfactory work environments in many organizations. Agile methods software development approach is based on a set of values and principles of agile manifesto and significance of customer involvement and people factors. The purpose of the agile practices and principles of continuous delivery is to encourage greater collaboration between all stakeholders.

We aim to publish papers representing recent research and advanced practices related to theory, practical applications, and implications of agile methods. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

XP, scrum, crystal, lean software development, and other agile methods

Foundations and conceptual studies of agile methods

Agile architecting

Agile method adoption, adoption strategies, and critical success factors

Agile and lean transformation

Agile method tailoring

Agile development in large scale environments

Agile development and open source

Agile in offshore and distributed development

Agile development of embedded software

Agile and software product lines

Agile practices, for example, pair programming, test-first design, continuous integration, refactoring, and so forth

Agile method education and training

Agile software development tools

Business agility and implications

Case studies and tool support of agile methods

Combining or streamlining business processes and agile development

Financial aspects of agile development (costing, budgets, forming contracts, etc.)

Implications of agile on industry quality standards (e.g., SPICE, CMMI)

Innovation and agile methods

Integration of agile with conventional practices

Knowledge management in agile projects

Metrics, automated metrics, and analysis related to agile development performances and comparison with conventional approaches

Modeling in agile methods

Reusable artifacts (e.g., COTS/OSS components) in agile

Social and cultural issues in agile method teams and organizations

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(IS

SN)2047-7481/homepage/ForAuthors.html.

Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at Manuscripts will be submitted via:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsme according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due, 6 May 2015

First Round of Reviews 6 September 2015

Guest Editors:

Alok Mishra, Atilim University, Turkey

Juan Garbajosa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Pekka Abrahamsson, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden