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Call for Chapters: Balancing Agile and
Disciplined
Engineering and
Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products
Editors
Prof. Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes,
Mexico
Prof. Jorge Marx Gómez, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Prof. Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Prof. Alena Buchalcevova, University of Economics Prague,
Czech Republic
Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: July 15, 2019
Full Chapters Due: November 15, 2019
Submission Date: May 15, 2020
Introduction
While several Agile Software-System Development methods (such
as Scrum,
XP) have permeated in the Software Engineering academic and
professional
communities in the last 10 years (Hoda et al., 2018), they
have been also
criticized for trying of using them in all kind of software
engineering
projects (Boehm, 2002; Meyer, 2018) and by their large
learning curve to
be mastered (Ganesh & Thangasamy, 2012). Even inventors of
the main
agile
methodologies have indicated subtly that agile methods do not
imply
easiness of utilization. For instance, Beck (1999; chapter 24)
reported:
"XP is simple in its details, but it is hard to execute".
Similarly,
Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland (2017; p. 3) "SCRUM is:
lightweight,
simple
to understand, (but) difficult to master". Additionally, while
some
studies (Schwaber & Beedle, 2002; Holvitie et al., 2018)
have reported
that agile software-system development methods help to reduce
the negative
effects of technical debts, other studies have also reported
(Schwanke
et
al., 2013; Guo et al., 2016) that agile software-system
development
methods are prone to introduce technical debts by "an emphasis
on
quick
delivery and architecture and design issues" (Behutiye et al.
2017;
p.
154). Consequently, balanced discipline-agility methods and
approaches
have been proposed by researchers (Boehm & Turner, 2004;
Rodriguez-Martinez et al., 2012) and some particular
adaptations (maturity
models, scalation models, enhancement models) to agile methods
have been
also explored (Boehm & Turner, 2005; Campanelli &
Parreiras, 2015;
Galvan-Cruz et al., 2017; Dingselyr et al., 2018; 2019;
Ozcan-Top &
Demirors, 2019). Furthermore, new ISO/IEC standards like the
ISO/IEC 29110
standard, pursue similar aims (O'Connor, 2019).
Similarly, in the domain of IT service management (TSO, 2012)
it has been
an extensive utilization of disciplined best practices and
process
frameworks such as ITIL v3.2011 (TSO, 2012), the ISO/IEC 20000
(ISO/IEC
2010), CMMI-SVC (SEI, 2010), and the proprietary ones ITUP
(IBM, 2010)
and
MOF 4.0. (Microsoft, 2008). However, in the last 5 years, the
agile
paradigm has also permeated to the IT Service Management field
and at
present days there are several available agile IT service
management best
practices and process frameworks such as VeriSM (Mann, 2018),
IT4IT (Open
Group, 2017), FitSM (FitSM, 2016a; 2016b) and Lean IT (LeanIT,
2015).
Furthermore, with the current high interest in business and
governmental
organizations for making Digital Transformations (World Bank,
2018; Open
Group, 2018) providing innovative services, the need of agile
effective
and efficient IT service design methods arises in this modern
worldwide
context. Thus, despite the classic IT Service Management best
practices
and process frameworks have caused beneficial economic and
positive
performance impacts in the recent past, however, the current
highly
dynamic world pushes strong pressures on the IT area for
delivering
quickly and correctly IT services. New claimed agile (and
flexible
integrative) IT Service Management best practices and process
frameworks
(i.e. LeanIT, IT4IT, FitSM, and VeriSM) have already emerged
in this last
5-year period, but scarce scientific evidence of their
effectiveness is
available.
Both disciplined and agile approaches rely on very separate
assumptions,
and consequently, their straight integration of balanced
methods is not
a
trivial task (Siau et al., 2015). Furthermore, the high
dynamic context
of
the software-system and IT services customer demands and the
emergence
of
highly related information technology and innovations such as
cloud
computing (Younas et al., 2018), Internet of things (Jacobson
et al.,
2017), microservices architecture (Pautasso et al., 2017), and
DevOps
approach (Dingsoyr, T., & Lassenius, 2016) claim for a
reconsideration
of
the adequate utilization of disciplined vs agile vs balanced
IT services
and software development methods. Nevertheless, these concerns
have been
few explored.
Thus, in this co-edited book, we call for conceptual
frameworks which help
to clarify the theoretical foundations of balanced design
methods for
software and IT service, as well as empirical cases
(exploratory and
confirmatory ones) where evidence on success or learned
lessons on failed
cases of these balanced methods be reported.
Objective
This book will aim to collect and disseminate high-quality
theoretical
and
applied research on a very relevant topic in the software
engineering and
IT service management domains. The expected contributions will
pave the
path toward better development methods for software and IT
services based
on the convergence of disciplined and agile approaches. These
topics are
causing at present relevant academic and professional debates
demanding
efficient and effective solutions.
Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of:
• International research centers on software engineering
• International research centers on IT service management
• Graduate programs (Master and Doctoral level) on software
engineering
• Graduate programs (Master and Doctoral level) on IT services
management
• Software industries using agile methods
• Organizations using IT service management process
frameworks.
Recommended Topics
For software products
• Agile, disciplined and balanced values, principles and
assumptions for
software development
• Agile, disciplined and balanced software development methods
• Agile, disciplined and balanced software process frameworks
and standards
• Successful/failed case studies on agile, disciplined and
balanced
software development process
• Surveys on utilization of agile, disciplined and balanced
software
development process
• Teaching cases on agile, disciplined and balanced software
development
process
• Open source tools for agile, disciplined and balanced
software
development process
• Impact of emergent technologies (cloud, microservices, IoT)
on agile,
disciplined and balanced software development process
• Impact of business trends (digitalization, industry 4.0,
analytics,
big
data) on agile, disciplined and balanced software development
process
• Challenges and trends of agile, disciplined and balanced
software
development process
For IT Services
• Agile, disciplined and balanced values, principles and
assumptions for
IT services development
• Agile, disciplined and balanced IT service development
methods
• Agile, disciplined and balanced IT service process
frameworks and standards
• Successful/failed case studies on agile, disciplined and
balanced IT
service development process
• Surveys on utilization of agile, disciplined and balanced IT
service
development process
• Teaching cases on agile, disciplined and balanced IT service
development
process
• Open source tools for agile, disciplined and balanced IT
service
development process
• Impact of emergent technologies (cloud, microservices, IoT)
on agile,
disciplined and balanced IT service development process
• Impact of business trends (digitalization, industry 4.0,
analytics,
big
data) on agile, disciplined and balanced IT service
development process
• Challenges and trends of agile, disciplined and balanced IT
service
development process
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or
before July 15,
2019, a chapter proposal of 500-750 words with the following
mandatory
content: 1) title, 2) authors and affiliations, 3) abstract,
4) keywords,
5) context, 6) main idea, and 7) list of 5-7 main references.
Authors will
be notified by July 29, 2019 about the status of their
proposals and
guidelines for your full chapter submission. Full chapters are
expected
to
be submitted by November 15, 2019, and all interested authors
must consult
the guidelines for manuscript submissions at
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/
prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed
on a
double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested
to serve
as
reviewers for this project. Note: There are no submission or
acceptance
fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication,
Balancing Agile
and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT
Services and
Software Products. All manuscripts are accepted based on a
double-blind
peer review editorial process. All proposals should be
submitted through
the eEditorial Discovery®TM online submission manager.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly
Idea Group
Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference"
(formerly
Idea
Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference,"
"Business
Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference"
imprints. For
additional information regarding the publisher, please visit
www.igi-global.com.
This publication is anticipated to be released in
2020.
Important Dates
July 15, 2019: Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline
July 29, 2019: Notification of Acceptance of Chapter Proposal
November 15, 2019: Full Chapter Submission Deadline
January 15, 2020: Review Results Returned
March 15, 2020: Conditioned Full Chapter Submission Deadline
April 15, 2020: Final Acceptance Notification
May 15, 2020: Final Camera-Ready Chapter Submission
Inquiries
Prof. Manuel Mora
Information Systems Department / Center of Basic Sciences
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
Ave. Universidad 940
Aguascalientes, AGS, MEXICO 20131
Email: jose.mora@edu.uaa.mx
Propose a chapter for this book
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/4139
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Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jorge Marx Gómez
University of Oldenburg
Department of Computing Science
Chair Business Informatics (Very Large Business Applications)
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118; 26129 Oldenburg - GERMANY
Tel. +49 441/ 798-4470, Fax -4472
E-Mail: jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de