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Call for participation: 1st International Workshop on Agile
Transformation at XP2019, Montreal
Many organisations are adopting agile approaches, not only in
their IT department, but increasingly across the whole
organisation. The process of introducing agile practices in
organisations is called an "agile transformation". In a review
article published in 2016, Dikert et al. identify a number of
challenges in agile transformations, such as resistance to change,
lack of investment (training, coaching, lack of physical
rearrangement to suit new ways of work), agile being "difficult to
implement", challenges with coordination across teams, and that
different approaches emerge in multi-team environments. The review
focuses on software development organisations although many of the
challenges identified are not necessarily specific to software
development. As organisations increasingly engage in agile
transformation processes, advice today is dominated by consultants
and from experience reports. Researchers have suggested to
understand agile transformation processes through sociotechnical
theory, change management theory and we believe that there are a
number of other fields to learn from to understand and improve the
outcome of agile transformation processes.
We would like to challenge the scientific community to identify
what should be of prime interest for researchers in this area, as
there are growing opportunities to study agile transformation as
companies increasingly adopt new large-scale agile frameworks.
Organisations are learning from agile practice to embrace agility
in their ways of working; agile practitioners can also benefit
from the wider context of organisations undergoing agile
transformations, to understand the wider implications of
large-scale transformations and how to sustain them. We will
create a workshop to provide an interactive arena for knowledge
sharing and exchange of experiences between academics and
practitioners.
We seek submissions in the form of lightning talks at the
workshop. Examples of areas of interest are: Experience reports on
the transformation process, how to sustain agile transformations,
and theoretical lenses to understand and frameworks to improve the
outcome of agile transformations.
We welcome suggestions for short talks for the workshop by 10
March 2019. Title and abstracts (maximum 300 words) of lightning
talks for workshop will be reviewed by at at least two members of
program committee. Submit at:
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=atrans2019
Important dates:
10 March 2019: Submission of abstract for lightning talks.
10 April 2019: Notification of acceptance / rejection
25 May 2019: Workshop at XP2019, Montreal, Canada.
Primary organizers:
• Leonor Barroca, Open University, United Kingdom
• Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF Digital, Norway
• Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway
Program committee:
Raid AlQaisi, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Finn Olav Bjørnson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Peggy Gregory, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
Lucas Gren, Volvo Cars, Sweden
Tomas Gustavsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF Digital
Teemu Karvonen, University of Oulu, Finland
Casper Lassenius, Alto University, Finland / Simula Research
Laboratory, Norway
Per Lenberg, Saab AB, Sweden
Will Menner, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Shannon Ewan, ICAgile, USA
Kai Spohrer, University of Mannheim, Germany
Helen Sharp, Open University, United Kingdom
Katie Taylor, Agile Business Consortium, United Kingdom
Marianne Worren, Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration
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Andreas Drechsler
Senior Lecturer, School of Information Management
Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington
Room 402, Rutherford House
23 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus
PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 463-5265
andreas.drechsler@vuw.ac.nz
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