[AISWorld] CfP: 1st International Workshop on Agile Transformation at XP2019

[Andreas Drechsler]

Call for participation: 1st International Workshop on Agile 
Transformation at XP2019, Montreal

Many organisations are adopting agile approaches, not only in their IT 
department, but increasingly across the whole organisation. The process 
of introducing agile practices in organisations is called an "agile 
transformation". In a review article published in 2016, Dikert et al. 
identify a number of challenges in agile transformations, such as 
resistance to change, lack of investment (training, coaching, lack of 
physical rearrangement to suit new ways of work), agile being "difficult 
to implement", challenges with coordination across teams, and that 
different approaches emerge in multi-team environments. The review 
focuses on software development organisations although many of the 
challenges identified are not necessarily specific to software 
development. As organisations increasingly engage in agile 
transformation processes, advice today is dominated by consultants and 
from experience reports. Researchers have suggested to understand agile 
transformation processes through sociotechnical theory, change 
management theory and we believe that there are a number of other fields 
to learn from to understand and improve the outcome of agile 
transformation processes.

We would like to challenge the scientific community to identify what 
should be of prime interest for researchers in this area, as there are 
growing opportunities to study agile transformation as companies 
increasingly adopt new large-scale agile frameworks. Organisations are 
learning from agile practice to embrace agility in their ways of 
working; agile practitioners can also benefit from the wider context of 
organisations undergoing agile transformations, to understand the wider 
implications of large-scale transformations and how to sustain them. We 
will create a workshop to provide an interactive arena for knowledge 
sharing and exchange of experiences between academics and practitioners.

We seek submissions in the form of lightning talks at the workshop. 
Examples of areas of interest are: Experience reports on the 
transformation process, how to sustain agile transformations, and 
theoretical lenses to understand and frameworks to improve the outcome 
of agile transformations.

We welcome suggestions for short talks for the workshop by 10 March 
2019. Title and abstracts (maximum 300 words) of lightning talks for 
workshop will be reviewed by at at least two members of program 
committee. Submit at:
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=atrans2019

Important dates:
10 March 2019: Submission of abstract for lightning talks.
10 April 2019: Notification of acceptance / rejection
25 May 2019: Workshop at XP2019, Montreal, Canada.

Primary organizers: 	
• Leonor Barroca, Open University, United Kingdom
• Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF Digital, Norway
• Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway

Program committee:
Raid AlQaisi, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Finn Olav Bjørnson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Peggy Gregory, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Lucas Gren, Volvo Cars, Sweden
Tomas Gustavsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF Digital
Teemu Karvonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Casper Lassenius, Alto University, Finland / Simula Research Laboratory, 
Norway
Per Lenberg, Saab AB, Sweden
Will Menner, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Shannon Ewan, ICAgile, USA
Kai Spohrer, University of Mannheim, Germany
Helen Sharp, Open University, United Kingdom
Katie Taylor, Agile Business Consortium, United Kingdom
Marianne Worren, Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration



-- 
Andreas Drechsler
Senior Lecturer, School of Information Management
Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington

Room 402, Rutherford House
23 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus
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Phone: +64 4 463-5265
andreas.drechsler at vuw.ac.nz