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International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems<BR>
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LESS 2010<BR>
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In collaboration with Lean Software and Systems Consortium<BR>
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October 17-20, 2010 in Helsinki, Finland<BR>
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IMPORTANT DATES<BR>
- Paper submissions: May-31st, 2010<BR>
- All other submissions (Lightning talks, sessions, activities, workshops,<BR>
tutorials, posters, PhD symposium): June 15th, 2010<BR>
- Acceptance notification for all submissions: June 30rd, 2010<BR>
- Camera-ready papers: August 5th, 2010<BR>
- Early-bird registration deadline: Aug 15th 2010<BR>
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Agile software development changed the way the software development is<BR>
perceived today. The journey continues now in the new era where the software<BR>
business meets software practice in a novel way. We are proud to present you<BR>
the International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems (LESS).<BR>
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The journey starts from Helsinki, Finland in October 2010. LESS is organized<BR>
in collaboration with Lean Software and Systems Consortium, the LeanSSC.<BR>
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LESS joins three strong communities together to form a platform for<BR>
innovative ideas and future developments. We foster the interaction by<BR>
joining the lean product development community with the agile community<BR>
coupled with innovative ideas nurtured by the beyond budgeting school of<BR>
thought. These communities are supported by well-defined educational tracks<BR>
to involve the university lecturers deeply in the network where future<BR>
software and business managers are educated.<BR>
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We welcome you to be part of this exciting and growing community of<BR>
impacting the future of software business and practice!<BR>
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CONFERENCE SCOPE<BR>
The LESS 2010 will have three key tracks - Lean product development and<BR>
innovation, Scaling up agile to lean, and Beyond Budgeting. You are invited<BR>
to submit the papers addressing contemporary issues emerging in the specific<BR>
or intersection of the proposed areas. Both, papers reporting completed<BR>
research results and industrial experiences are welcome. Invited are<BR>
original submissions on the topics including, but not limited to:<BR>
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. Lean software development<BR>
. Lean product development<BR>
. Case studies of agile-lean<BR>
. Large scale agile transformation<BR>
. The Toyota approach<BR>
. Beyond budgeting<BR>
. Lean startup<BR>
. Enterprise agility<BR>
. Lean values<BR>
. Lean education<BR>
. Kanban cases<BR>
. Agile enterprise<BR>
. Enterprise transformation<BR>
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<BR>
We call for contributions in the form of research papers, experience<BR>
reports, workshops, panels, lightning talks, PhD-symposium contributions,<BR>
workshops, tutorials, posters and activities. All paper submissions will be<BR>
subject to a double-blind review process. Accepted full papers and short<BR>
papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer<BR>
as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)<BR>
series.<BR>
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All submission details can be found in the conference website<BR>
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION<BR>
Program Chairs:<BR>
Pekka Abrahamsson, University of Helsinki, Finland and Nilay Oza, VTT<BR>
Technical Research Centre of Finland<BR>
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Organizing Chairs:<BR>
Fabian Fagerholm, University of Helsinki, Finland and Petri Kettunen,<BR>
University of Helsinki, Finland<BR>
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Lean Product Development and Innovation track chairs:<BR>
Jayakanth "JK" Srinivasan, MIT, USA and Karl Scotland, Availagility, UK<BR>
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Scaling agile towards lean track chairs:<BR>
Vasco Duarte, Nokia, Finland and Kieran Conboy, NUI Galway, Ireland<BR>
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Beyond Budgeting track chairs:<BR>
Peter Bunce, Beyond Budgeting Partnership LLP, UK and Bjarte Bogsnes,<BR>
StatoilHydro, Norway<BR>
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CONFERENCE TRACK DETAILS<BR>
Lean product development and innovation<BR>
Lean and Innovation have both been touted as transformational strategies<BR>
that are essential to long term survival of organizations. Lean Product<BR>
Development brings the two constructs together to gain competitive<BR>
advantage. The traditional academic and practitioner literature still<BR>
remains partitioned into the two streams of lean transformation and<BR>
innovation. The classical lean transformation ideas stem from three books:<BR>
Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking, and Lean Enterprise Value.<BR>
This has evolved from being product/customer focused to being truly<BR>
multi-stakeholder, and enterprise value centric. This evolution provides an<BR>
opportunity to understand and critically assess the coupling between lean<BR>
enterprise thinking and innovation. The four factors that Van de Ven<BR>
identified in 1986 as being key to successful innovation, namely, the human<BR>
problem of managing attention, the process problem of managing good ideas<BR>
into good currency, the structural problem of managing part-whole<BR>
relationships, and the strategic problem of institutional leadership, remain<BR>
relevant today. In this track, we will focus on the application of lean<BR>
enterprise ideas and principles to the innovation process. The areas covered<BR>
will include idea generation, new product/service development, sustainment,<BR>
and retirement.<BR>
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Scaling agile to lean<BR>
Many software teams adopt agile without any significant challenges or<BR>
problems presenting themselves. However, scaling agile to large development<BR>
groups, and even further beyond the team to the organizational level pose<BR>
very significant difficulties. It is difficult to know how to tackle large<BR>
development groups, to enable agility at the portfolio level, to enable<BR>
large scale distributed software development, or to make software<BR>
development an efficient part of the larger Product and System Development<BR>
process? In this track we aim to document some of these key challenges and<BR>
consequences as well as present studies and findings from industry and<BR>
academia on how to tackle these key challenges.<BR>
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Beyond Budgeting<BR>
Beyond Budgeting is a "grass-root" movement of companies that are leaving<BR>
traditional management practices, including budgeting, for more flexible and<BR>
dynamic management processes built on a positive view on people. The Lean &<BR>
Agile principles have much in common with Beyond Budgeting. Lean & Agile<BR>
challenge traditional beliefs about how best to run business support<BR>
projects, while Beyond Budgeting challenges traditional thinking about how<BR>
to best run organisations. Both arrive at very similar conclusions. Complex<BR>
knowledge organizations operating in uncertain and dynamic environments need<BR>
agile and flexible processes, supporting fast and value driven decisions.<BR>
The Beyond Budgeting movement believes that organizations only will realize<BR>
the full potential from Lean & Agile when this becomes the way we run our<BR>
business and organization, and not just in our projects.<BR>
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