[AISWorld] CfP: 6th International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2012)

[Inge van de Weerd]

Call for Papers
6th International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2012)
at REFSQ 2012

March 19, 2012, Essen, Germany
http://2012.iwspm.org/

The success of any software intensive product depends on skilled and
competent product management. In essence, a product manager decides what
functionality and quality a product should offer, to which customers,
while minimizing the time-to-market and assuring a winning business
case. Software product management is not only relevant for pure software
companies and companies that develop software intensive systems, but
also for companies that provide services to customers using long-lived
software infrastructures.

*** Important dates ***
Papers due: January 23, 2012
Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: March 3, 2012
Preliminary program: March 10, 2012
IWSPM Workshop: March 19, 2012


*** Topics ***
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Product management for software, software-intensive systems,
information technology, software as a service, and cloud computing.
- Product portfolios and life-cycles: managing software product
innovation based on open source components while providing balanced
contribution vs. differentiation strategies.
- Product management in growing size and complexity, ensuring the
intended software product qualities with balance between control and
innovation.
- Product management for rapidly changing software products, methods for
managing the quantity and paste of changes in the most demanding
software markets.
- Product planning: product visioning, strategy, roadmapping, and
release definition.
- Collaboration in software ecosystems and supply networks:
subcontracting, partnering, tendering, negotiation, coordination, and
control.
- Business aspects: business case development, business planning, and
marketing.
- Product management environments: SME’s, large-scale organizations,
cross-company ecosystems, and global settings.
- Product management performance: measurement, development, and
improvement of product management processes, practices, skills, and
competence.
- Tools for product management: innovative SPM tooling, tool evaluation,
tools in industry.


*** Organizing Committee ***
Richard Berntsson Svensson (Lund University, Sweden)
Marjo Kauppinen (Aalto University, Finland)
Inge van de Weerd (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)


*** Paper preparation, submission and evaluation ***
We invite original submissions of high quality papers in 2 categories.

- Research papers – technical solutions and empirical studies. Research
papers explain the addressed problem, its relevance to the workshop
topics, and the research approach. Solution papers are additionally
expected to include preliminary validation.
- Industry practice papers – experience reports and problem statements.
Industry papers provide sufficient context for understanding the
reported challenges. Experience reports additionally describe the
insights gained and the general lessons learned for software product
management.

In both categories it is possible to submit:
- Full papers (up to 15 pages)
- Short/position/vision papers (up to 6 pages).

Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality papers written in
English via the EasyChair submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwspm2012

Submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format.
Instructions and templates are available at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of
the program committee and selected based on workshop relevance, academic
rigor (only research papers), innovation, industrial applicability, and
quality of writing. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop program
and proceedings. At least one author is required to register and
participate during the workshop.

Workshop proceedings and best paper award Proceedings of accepted papers
will appear in electronic format, in an ICB Research Report with an ISSN
Number. There will be a best paper award.