Co-located with 24nd IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering,
Beijing, China, September 13, 2016
Software product management (SPM) is a scientific discipline within the Requirements Engineering domain with a focus on managing requirements, release planning, product roadmaps and portfolio planning in product-driven software development. Software Producing Organizations - in both the open source as well as proprietary source contexts - integrate technical and business perspectives to guide the creation of a software product. A product manager makes strategic and tactical decisions on what functionality and qualities a product should offer, to which customers, and at what time. To foster SPM excellence in practice and academia, we cordially invite you to contribute your work to the 9th edition of the International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM’16). The special theme for this edition is:
“Delivering Better Requirements By Improving Software Product Management”
The main goals of IWSPM’16 are to:
Aside from research papers, the workshop welcomes industry papers from daily practitioners as well. In particular, we are looking for industry case studies, experience reports and short position that provide insights or criticism beyond product management theory.
In both categories it is possible to submit:
Note: that papers must describe original work that has not been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE formatting instructions [ template ]
Garm Lucassen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Farnaz Fotrousi, Blekinge Institue of Technology, Sweden
Andrey Maglyas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany
Samuel Fricker, University of FHNW, Switzerland
Tony Gorschek, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Sebastian Barney, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
David Callele, TRLabs Saskatoon, Canada
Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer-IESE, Germany
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany
Samuel Fricker, University of FHNW, Switzerland
Tony Gorschek, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, The Nethelrands
Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, InnoTivum, Germany
Kari Smolander, Aalto University, Finland
Lili Wang, Beihang University, China
Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University, Sweden
Peng Xin, Fudan University, China
Wei Zhang, Peking University, China
All papers were peer-reviewed and the accepted papers are appeared in the IEEE digital library. To cite the accepted papers, please use the following citation format:
D. Callele and K. Wnuk (2016). "A Process for Product and Service Definition", International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2016), Beijing, China.
S. Fricker (2016). "Systematic Mapping of Technology-Enabled Product Innovations", International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2016), Beijing, China.[pdf]
Z. Shakeri, H. Abad, A. Shymka, S. Pant, A. Currie and G. Ruhe, "What Are Practitioners Asking About Requirements Engineering? An Exploratory Analysis of Social Q&A Sites.", International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2016), Beijing, China.[pdf]
J. Linåker and K. Wnuk,“Requirements Analysis and Management for Benefiting Openness (RAMBO)” , International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2016), Beijing, China.
IWSPM 2016 is a highly interactive event planned to provoke discussion among the presenters of papers, discussants and all the other participants. Typically, after a paper is presented, it is immediately discussed by a pre-assigned discussant, then subject to a free discussion involving all participants. At the end of each session (or after a group of sessions), a discussion takes place about all the papers that were presented in this session (or group of sessions).
SC introduces the presenters of the papers in a session. The SC takes care of the time, organises the discussion of a paper after its presentation, and gives the word to speakers in the audience during discussions. He also moderates session and plenary discussions.
PR presents a paper. A PR is also often a discussant (see below).
DC prepares the discussion of a paper. Each paper is assigned one DC. DCs are typically presenters of other papers in the same session, but can also be presenters of papers in another session. The DC gives a critical review of the paper directly after its presentation by presenting a slide that provides answers to a predefined set of questions.
PR – Your paper has been accepted and you will be the author who presents the paper. It is highly recommended that you attend the full day of the event and take an active part in the discussion of the other papers. Prepare your presentation and bear in mind the available time: full papers (full research papers ) are restricted to 15 min, and short papers (i.e., position papers) are restricted to 10 min.
DC – Please have a look at the programme to check which paper you should discuss. Read the paper you are assigned to. Prepare a one-slide summary answering the following questions, depending on the type of paper you discuss.
With this sponsorship, the ISPMA hopes to encourage young researchers to contribute new exciting findings to this dynamic domain.
Should you have any questions, feel free to ask:
Garm Lucassen, g.lucassen@uu.nl
Farnaz Fotrousi, farnaz.fotrousi@bth.se.