LASD 2022

About

The evolution of software development methods is driven by the perennial quest on how to organize projects for better productivity. Plan-driven methods recommend spending much effort and resources to comprehensively capture all requirements and elaborate a big up-front design. Although they succeeded in projects where all properties of the software system could be specified in detail, they were unable to meet the dynamism, unpredictability and changing conditions that characterize today's competitive business environment. Thereby, traditional methods were superseded by lightweight methods based on iterative and incremental software development, frequent feedback from the customer, and an agile mindset. Agile methods have not only acknowledged that business requirements change, but also that customers are unable to definitively express their needs up front. Accordingly, agile teams start with a small set of core requirements to initiate the project and develop a working product. This working product becomes the basis for further discussions with the customer and new features are incrementally deliver on top of it. Later on, the software industry also started to adopt practices from lean manufacturing as a means of further waste elimination by removing all non-value-adding activities.

While agile as well as 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 companies. Thereby, the practical implementation of Scrum, Kanban or other method often deviates from the proposed framework. Such misalignment usually hides some dysfunctions which, if removed, would allow the company to take full advantage of the agile method.

Besides, even though agile methods were originally designed for single, small teams, many organizations have increasingly adopted them in large-scale projects with multiple development teams. Scaling agile software development is complex and brings new challenges, including:

• coordination and communication between teams;
• coordination of distributed projects;
• lack of up-front architecture;
• adoption of agile methods in units other than software development departments, such as product management, marketing, and sales.

The objective of LASD is to extend the state-of-the-art in lean and agile software development and spread best practices and stories of successful transitions. Our conference has become a prominent forum where practitioners, researchers, and academics meet to share and discuss their concerns, experience, and research findings.

Submissions

We invite research papers in two categories: Full Papers (14-18 pages), and Short Papers (up to 8 pages). Papers must be in English and present original, not already published research. Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers:

https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Submission is done through the EasyChair Conference System. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

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.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in their Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. LNBIP volumes are made available to the following indexing services: Web of Science; Scopus, EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; DBLP; Google Scholar. The proceedings will be available at: https://link.springer.com/conference/lasd.

An extended version of the best papers will be forwarded for further procedure in Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS, IF: 1.167) and Journal of Computer Languages (Cola, IF: 1.271).

Corresponding authors of accepted papers are required to upload a pre-recorded video of their paper presentation to YouTube or other video-sharing platform and send the uploaded video link via email to the conference chair. The presentations will be available 2 weeks before the conference. During the conference, the authors must be available online to interact with attendees for questions and answers.

There are a lot of tools available to easily record a presentation. By using these tools, you can show your face via webcam and display your slides as you talk. Please, explore the links below for detailed instructions:

Zoom

Local recording

PowerPoint

Record a slide show with narration and slide timings, How to Make a Video in PowerPoint

KeyNote

How To Record & Export High-Quality Videos

OBS Studio

obsproject.com

CamStudio

camstudio.org

Keynotes

Markus Borg

Keynote title

Agility in Software 2.0 – Notebook Interfaces and MLOps with Buttresses and Rebars

Short Biography

Dr. Markus Borg is a senior researcher with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB. He is also an adjunct lecturer at Lund University from where he obtained a PhD in software engineering in 2015. His research interests include empirical software engineering, machine learning, and software testing. Before embarking on the research career, Markus worked at ABB as a software engineer in safety-critical process automation. Markus is also a board member of Swedsoft, an independent non-profit organization with the mission to increase the competitiveness of Swedish software.

Raman Ramsin

Keynote title

Promises of Model-Driven Development in an Agile Context

Short Biography

Dr. Raman Ramsin is with Sharif University of Technology, Iran. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of York, UK, in 2006. As a lecturer, his graduate and undergraduate courses span the process-related areas of software engineering, including software development methodologies, patterns in software engineering, object-oriented analysis and design, and agile methods. His recent research focuses on situational method engineering, agile development, and model-driven engineering.

Chair

• Przybyłek, Adam

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

Industry Advisory Board

• Jiménez-Hernández, Eréndira Miriam

  Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• Looks, Hanna

  Spain, University of Seville / d.velop public sector GmbH

• Markowski, Paweł

  Poland, CloudFerro

• Neumann, Michael

  Germany, Hochschule Hannover

• Shkroba, Illia

  Poland, Pivotal Poland