Call for Papers

2nd International Workshop on Software Product Management

Tuesday 09. September 2008, Barcelona, Spain

http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/OI/IWSPM/

  In conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
8-12 September 2008
www.re08.org

Workshop Objective

In today’s competitive software markets it is of utmost interest to have winning products. The success of any software product depends on skilled and competent product management. Software product management includes product requirements, release definitions, product lifecycles, creating an effective multifunctional product introduction team and – above all – assuring a winning business case. Software product management is complex: There are many stakeholders, many responsibilities and lots of skill needs, but no formalized education or agreed body of knowledge.

After the success of the first workshop (collocated with the 2006 Requirements Engineering conference in Minneapolis, USA) this workshop aims to further increase the body of knowledge for this specific area of requirements and software engineering by providing a forum to exchange ideas and discuss state-of-the-art results. It will build and shape the community of leading practitioners and research experts.

Given the relevance of product management in IT and software companies, and the rather unexplored scientific and industry contribution in this field, the workshop will deliver a state-of-the-practice overview of the available knowledge on software product management, as well as an overview of areas within software product management for further research.

Topics of interest

  • Product management practices in software and IT domains
  • Product management processes and best practices
  • Requirements engineering in relation to product management
  • Product management in relation to software development lifecycles
  • Product strategy definition and marketing
  • Release definition and roadmapping
  • Product families and product line engineering
  • Portfolio management and product life-cycle management
  • Subcontracting, partnering and incorporation of open source components
  • Software supplier networks
  • Service oriented software products
  • Product management at SME’s
  • Measuring and improving the performance of the product manager
  • Product management skill and competence building
  • Tools for product management
  • Business case development
  • Product requirements volatility and risk management

Workshop proceedings

Proceedings of accepted papers will appear in electronic format, in the IEEE CS Digital Library. We are in search of a scientific journal for publishing of extended and revised versions of the best papers.

Paper preparation, submission and evaluation

We welcome both research and industry papers to IWSPM 2008. Research papers should not exceed 5,000 words for a full research paper or not exceed 3,000 words for work-in-progress and position research papers. They must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. To encourage industrial participation we also welcome short industry papers (2,000 words maximum). Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) to Christof Ebert at Christof.Ebert@vector-consulting.de. Submissions must be formatted according to the 8.5x11 inch IEEE CS proceedings format. For downloading instructions and templates, go to the Author Forms web page of the IEEE Computer Society, available through this link . Three reviewers of the workshop’s program committee will judge the quality of each submitted workshop paper. Proceedings will appear in the IEEE CS Digital Library.

Important dates

04. July 2008: Deadline for workshop submissions
28. July 2008: Notification of authors
08. August 2008: Camera-ready papers due

All deadlines are 23:59 Apia, Samoa time.

Program committee

  • Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany
  • Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Gerald Heller, Hewlett Packard, Germany
  • Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Anthony Finkelstein - University College London, UK
  • Kari Smolander, Univ. Lappeenranta, Finland
  • Alan Hevner, NSF and University of South Florida, USA
  • Björn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden
  • Pnina Soffer, The University of Haifa, Israel
  • Johan Versendaal, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon West, USA
  • Günther Ruhe, University of Calgary, Canada
  • Tom McBride, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Leah Goldin, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel
  • Jarno Vähäniitty, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
  • Andrea Herrmann, Frauenhofer IESE, Germany
  • Maya Daneva, Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands

 Workshop organizing committee

Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Gerald Heller, Hewlett-Packard, Germany
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

For further questions, please contact us at IWSPM@cs.uu.nl .