Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (Wiley)

Recent Advances in Agile Software Product Development

Call for Papers

Agility is the ability of an enterprise to assimilate environmental change and acknowledge efficiently and effectively to that change. Agility will have causes and effects beyond the enterprise's immediate organizational boundaries. Agility is a business imperative, not just a technological one. The agile movement has made enormous strides in the last decade, greatly improving software delivery and creating more satisfactory work environments in many organizations. Agile methods software development approach is based on a set of values and principles of agile manifesto and significance of customer involvement and people factors. The purpose of the agile practices and principles of continuous delivery is to encourage greater collaboration between all stakeholders.

We aim to publish papers representing recent research and advanced practices related to theory, practical applications, and implications of agile methods. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

XP, scrum, crystal, lean software development, and other agile methods
Foundations and conceptual studies of agile methods
Agile architecting
Agile method adoption, adoption strategies, and critical success factors
Agile and lean transformation
Agile method tailoring
Agile development in large scale environments
Agile development and open source
Agile in offshore and distributed development
Agile development of embedded software
Agile and software product lines
Agile practices, for example, pair programming, test-first design, continuous integration, refactoring, and so forth
Agile method education and training
Agile software development tools
Business agility and implications
Case studies and tool support of agile methods
Combining or streamlining business processes and agile development
Financial aspects of agile development (costing, budgets, forming contracts, etc.)
Implications of agile on industry quality standards (e.g., SPICE, CMMI)
Innovation and agile methods
Integration of agile with conventional practices
Knowledge management in agile projects
Metrics, automated metrics, and analysis related to agile development performances and comparison with conventional approaches
Modeling in agile methods
Reusable artifacts (e.g., COTS/OSS components) in agile
Social and cultural issues in agile method teams and organizations

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(IS
SN)2047-7481/homepage/ForAuthors.html.

Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at Manuscripts will be submitted via:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsme according to the following timetable:



Manuscript Due, 30 June 2015
First Round of Reviews 6 September 2015


Guest Editors:

Alok Mishra, Atilim University, Turkey
Juan Garbajosa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Pekka Abrahamsson, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden