[AISWorld] LESS2013 CFP

[Kieran Conboy]

LESS 2013 - Lean Enterprise Software and Systems Conference

Galway, Ireland

1st - 4th December, 2013
www.less2013.org



CALL FOR PAPERS



The 4th International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems
(LESS2013) will be hosted by the National University of Ireland Galway on
the west coast of Ireland. The conference brings together both industrial
practitioners and researchers in the fields of information systems and
software engineering, and focuses specifically on theory, practical
applications and implications of agile and lean development methods. LESS
joins three strong communities to form a platform for innovative ideas and
future developments. We foster the interaction between the lean product
development community and the agile community, coupled with innovative ideas
nurtured by the Beyond Budgeting School of thinking.


The LESS 2013 conference will have five key tracks:

(i) Enterprise Transformation: This track examines a broad range of emerging
issues concerning transformation of how business is conducted in order to
help cope with shifts in environments.
(ii) Lean Startups: Lean Startup is an approach for launching businesses and
products that relies on validated learning, scientific experimentation, and
iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure
progress, and gain valuable customer feedback. In this way, companies,
especially startups, can design their products or services to meet the
demands of their customer base without requiring large amounts of initial
funding or expensive product launches
(iii) Lean & Agile Project & Portfolio Management: This track examines
emerging issues in the area of agile and lean methods. Papers are also
welcome on the application of these methods in project portfolios.

(iv) Scaling Software: Software is increasingly scaling in importance in
companies in different industry sectors who would not have traditionally
seen themselves as primarily software companies. As a consequence, software
development environments need to scale in various dimensions, e.g.,
Processes and Methods; Products, Systems and Services; Organization and
Business Domains.

(v) Beyond Budgeting: Because the world changes constantly, companies, not
just projects, must adapt to the new conditions as innovation comes in many
forms. Beyond Budgeting started as a learning journey for management
communities in Europe and is now a major active movement seeking a different
approach to the management of organisations.


You are invited to submit original papers addressing contemporary issues
emerging in the specific or intersections among the proposed areas. Papers
for sessions that fit any of these tracks are welcome, and we are constantly
looking for new ideas to promote and review in the community. Novelty and
applicability are important factors in the choice of sessions for the
conference. LESS is a conference at the intersection of different ideas and
trends. 

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Agile/Lean software development

- Complexity Thinking, Complexity Science and Complex Adaptive Systems in
the context of Agile and Lean
- Case studies of agile-lean

- Lean principles and values

- Kanban cases

- Lean education

- Agile enterprise 

- Beyond Budgeting studies

- Control in agile/lean environments

- Scaling agile/lean development

- Combining or streamlining business processes and agile/lean development



We encourage a range of submissions including:

Full research papers. Research papers are limited to 15 pages. Accepted
completed research papers will be presented at LESS2013 and published in the
LESS2013 proceedings.


Research-in-progress submissions are papers developed from promising but
incomplete research projects that will benefit from feedback of other LESS
participants. Research-in-progress papers are limited to 8 pages in length.
Accepted research in progress papers will be presented as posters at
LESS2013 and published in the LESS2013 proceedings.


Experience reports and demonstrations with a focus on presentations and
interactive sessions, experience report presentations or hands-on
engineering sessions. We are looking for lightning talks (10min),
presentations (60 or 90min) and interactive sessions (90min) related to any
of the conference themes. Please specify in your proposal: the title as it
should appear in the program, an abstract of 200 words or less, the
organizers (include a short 100 word bio), the theme covered, the format
(including duration), a justification for being included and the proposed
length (10min/60min/90min).


Workshops and tutorials for interesting and innovative half-day and full-day
experiences based on established material or interactive formats. We invite
research, technical papers, and work-in-progress investigating cases and
business models enabled by various technologies and developed in different
countries. Please specify in your proposal: the title of the
workshop/tutorial, an abstract of 200 words or less, the organizers (include
a short 100 word bio), the theme covered, the format (including duration)
and a justification for being included.


Ph.D. symposium inviting Ph.D. students to present their research.
Participants will be asked to prepare a presentation including a discussion
of the main research challenges, solution directions, results obtained thus
far, evaluation plan, and research plan towards the completion of the Ph.D.
Presentation should be limited to twenty minutes. An expert panel will
provide feedback to help students shape their work.


Panel proposals should be submitted to the track chairs. We invite proposals
that provide a forum to present, explore and debate timely proactive topics
and emergent trends. Panel sessions should complement the program by
allowing for the discussion of emerging issues as well as new research
ideas. In a panel proposal, submit the title and a 500-word description.


Papers must present new research not currently under review elsewhere. All
submissions are subject to a thorough peer-review process. At least one
author per paper is required to register upon acceptance. The LESS2013
conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Business Information processing (LNBIP). We are also discussing a special
issue of the Journal of Enterprise Transformation
(http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujet20), to which successful conference
papers will be invited.



IMPORTANT DATES

1 July 2013:     Submission of academic papers for review

1 Sep 2013:     Acceptance decision on academic papers

1 Oct 2013:     Submission of industry, papers and workshop, tutorial, panel
proposals

1 Oct 2013:     Early-bird registration deadline



AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS

All submissions must follow the guidelines as set by Springer:
http://www.springer.com/series/7911



ORGANISATION

General Chair - Brian Fitzgerald, Lero, University of Limerick

Program Chairs - Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland, Galway &
University of New South Wales; Ken Power, Cisco Systems, Galway, Ireland;
Ricardo Valerdi, University of Arizona, USA

Organising Chairs - Lorraine Morgan, Lero, NUI Galway; Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero,
University of Limerick

Doctoral Symposium Chair - Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen Bolzano

Executive Track Chair - JK Srinivasan, MIT, USA

For further information on the conference, please visit the main website:
http://less2013.org

or email: less2013 at lero.ie