[AISWorld] CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems

[Kieran Conboy]

 CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems

                     LESS 2010

In collaboration with Lean Software and Systems Consortium

           October 17-20, 2010 in Helsinki, Finland

              http://www.less2010.org

IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submissions: May-31st, 2010
- All other submissions (Lightning talks, sessions, activities, workshops,
tutorials, posters, PhD symposium): June 15th, 2010
- Acceptance notification for all submissions: June 30rd, 2010
- Camera-ready papers: August 5th, 2010
- Early-bird registration deadline: Aug 15th 2010

Agile software development changed the way the software development is
perceived today. The journey continues now in the new era where the software
business meets software practice in a novel way. We are proud to present you
the International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems (LESS).

The journey starts from Helsinki, Finland in October 2010. LESS is organized
in collaboration with Lean Software and Systems Consortium, the LeanSSC.

LESS joins three strong communities together to form a platform for
innovative ideas and future developments. We foster the interaction by
joining the lean product development community with the agile community
coupled with innovative ideas nurtured by the beyond budgeting school of
thought. These communities are supported by well-defined educational tracks
to involve the university lecturers deeply in the network where future
software and business managers are educated.

We welcome you to be part of this exciting and growing community of
impacting the future of software business and practice!

CONFERENCE SCOPE
The LESS 2010 will have three key tracks - Lean product development and
innovation, Scaling up agile to lean, and Beyond Budgeting. You are invited
to submit the papers addressing contemporary issues emerging in the specific
or intersection of the proposed areas. Both, papers reporting completed
research results and industrial experiences are welcome. Invited are
original submissions on the topics including, but not limited to:

.    Lean software development
.    Lean product development
.    Case studies of agile-lean
.    Large scale agile transformation
.    The Toyota approach
.    Beyond budgeting
.    Lean startup
.    Enterprise agility
.    Lean values
.    Lean education
.    Kanban cases
.    Agile enterprise
.    Enterprise transformation


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
We call for contributions in the form of research papers, experience
reports, workshops, panels, lightning talks, PhD-symposium contributions,
workshops, tutorials, posters and activities. All paper submissions will be
subject to a double-blind review process. Accepted full papers and short
papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer
as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)
series.

All submission details can be found in the conference website
http://www.less2010.org.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Program Chairs:
Pekka Abrahamsson, University of Helsinki, Finland and Nilay Oza, VTT
Technical Research Centre of Finland

Organizing Chairs:
Fabian Fagerholm, University of Helsinki, Finland and Petri Kettunen,
University of Helsinki, Finland

Lean Product Development and Innovation track chairs:
Jayakanth "JK" Srinivasan, MIT, USA and Karl Scotland, Availagility, UK

Scaling agile towards lean track chairs:
Vasco Duarte, Nokia, Finland and Kieran Conboy, NUI Galway, Ireland

Beyond Budgeting track chairs:
Peter Bunce, Beyond Budgeting Partnership LLP, UK and Bjarte Bogsnes,
StatoilHydro, Norway


CONFERENCE TRACK DETAILS
Lean product development and innovation
Lean and Innovation have both been touted as transformational strategies
that are essential to long term survival of organizations. Lean Product
Development brings the two constructs together to gain competitive
advantage. The traditional academic and practitioner literature still
remains partitioned into the two streams of lean transformation and
innovation. The classical lean transformation ideas stem from three books:
Machine that Changed the World, Lean Thinking, and Lean Enterprise Value.
This has evolved from being product/customer focused to being truly
multi-stakeholder, and enterprise value centric. This evolution provides an
opportunity to understand and critically assess the coupling between lean
enterprise thinking and innovation. The four factors that Van de Ven
identified in 1986 as being key to successful innovation, namely, the human
problem of managing attention, the process problem of managing good ideas
into good currency, the structural problem of managing part-whole
relationships, and the strategic problem of institutional leadership, remain
relevant today. In this track, we will focus on the application of lean
enterprise ideas and principles to the innovation process. The areas covered
will include idea generation, new product/service development, sustainment,
and retirement.

Scaling agile to lean
Many software teams adopt agile without any significant challenges or
problems presenting themselves. However, scaling agile to large development
groups, and even further beyond the team to the organizational level pose
very significant difficulties. It is difficult to know how to tackle large
development groups, to enable agility at the portfolio level, to enable
large scale distributed software development, or to make software
development an efficient part of the larger Product and System Development
process? In this track we aim to document some of these key challenges and
consequences as well as present studies and findings from industry and
academia on how to tackle these key challenges.

Beyond Budgeting
Beyond Budgeting is a "grass-root" movement of companies that are leaving
traditional management practices, including budgeting, for more flexible and
dynamic management processes built on a positive view on people. The Lean &
Agile principles have much in common with Beyond Budgeting. Lean & Agile
challenge traditional beliefs about how best to run business support
projects, while Beyond Budgeting challenges traditional thinking about how
to best run organisations. Both arrive at very similar conclusions. Complex
knowledge organizations operating in uncertain and dynamic environments need
agile and flexible processes, supporting fast and value driven decisions.
The Beyond Budgeting movement believes that organizations only will realize
the full potential from Lean & Agile when this becomes the way we run our
business and organization, and not just in our projects.

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