-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [wkwi] Call for Chapter: Book on Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:39:52 +0200 From: jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de Reply-To: jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de To: wkwi@listserv.dfn.de

*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

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