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HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice.   Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

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Agile software development processes have been influenced by best practices in Japanese industry, particularly by lean development principles [1] implemented at companies like Toyota [2], and knowledge management strategies developed by Takeuchi and Nonaka [3], now at the Hitotsubashi Business School in Japan, and Peter Senge [4] at MIT. This minitrack will focus on advancing the state of the art or presenting innovative ideas related to agile methods, individual practices and tools. Accepted papers are potentially to enrich the body of knowledge, to influence the framework of thought in the field by investigating Agile methods in a rigorous fashion.

We are looking for research papers on all aspects of agile methods, particularly those that bring best practices in knowledge management and lean development to Scrum [5] and similar practices:

Agile methods and processes
Business and social facets of agile software development
Technical facets of agile software engineering
Agile usability
Tools for agile developers and teams
Empirical studies of agile methods

Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

Research on existing or new methodologies and approaches: informal modeling techniques and practices, adapting/trimming existing methods, special projects or others. See [5].
Research on existing or new techniques or practices: pairing, war-rooms, test-first design, paper-based prototyping, early acceptance test driven development, exploratory testing, refactoring, or others.
Research on special topics or tools: configuration and resource management, testing, project steering, user involvement, design for agility, virtual teams or others. See [6].
Research on integrating ideas from other fields, e.g. interaction design, requirements engineering, cognitive science, organizational psychology, usability testing, software security, into agile processes.
Research studies of development teams using ethnographic or social research techniques.
Research on agile software engineering economics.
Quantitative and qualitative studies of agile methods, practices, and tools.

Papers are particularly relevant when lean thinking, lean development, and lean product development are shown as the means through which knowledge-based, knowledge-creating companies and organizations effectively implement agile software development principles and practices.

Co-Chairs:

Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D., PatientKeeper, USA. jeff.sutherland@computer.org

Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and Co-Creator of the Scrum Agile Development Process.

Mary Poppendieck. Poppendieck, LLC, USA. mary@poppendieck.com

Global consultant on Lean development. Author of Lean Software Development.

Jean Tabaka. Rally Development Corporation, USA. jean.tabaka@rallydev.com

Certified ScrumMaster; a Certified Professional Facilitator; a member of the Project Management Institute, and author of Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders.

References:

1. Poppendieck, M. "A History of Lean: From Manufacturing to Software Development." in JAOO Conference. 2005. Aarhus, Denmark: EOS.

2. Liker, J.K., "The Toyota way: 14 management principles from the world's greatest manufacturer. 2004, New York: McGraw-Hill. xxii, 330 p.

3. Takeuchi, H. and I. Nonaka, "Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management. 2004, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia).

4. Senge, P.M., "The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. 1990, New York: Currency.

5. Sutherland, J. "Future of Scrum: Parallel Pipelining of Sprints in Complex Projects." in AGILE 2005 Conference. 2005. Denver, CO: IEEE.

6. Sutherland, J., A. Viktorov, and J. Blount. "Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams." Submitted to Agile 2006, 2006. Available from http://scrumalliance.org/index.php/scrum_alliance/for_everyone/resources/scrum_articles/distributed_scrum_agile_project_management_with_outsourced_development.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Abstracts Authors are encouraged to contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. Manuscripts are not accepted based on abstracts. Full manuscripts must be submitted by June 15.

June 15 Authors submit full manuscripts to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All manuscripts will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Since manuscripts will undergo a double-blind review, author names and affiliations must not be included on the original manuscript. This information will be collected later through the system.

August 15 Acceptance notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System.

September 15 Authors submit Final Version of accepted papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee applies. (General Registration fee applies Sept 16-Dec 15.)

December 1 Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate.

December 15 Deadline to receive conference registration refund. Late registration

fee applies.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

• HICSS manuscripts must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere.

• HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted manuscript.

• Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-40.
• Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. (Optional but strongly encouraged)
• Manuscripts may not be submitted to more than one Minitrack Chair. (One will be summarily rejected.) If unsure which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance.

• Submit full manuscript according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website.

CONFERENCE TRACKS

Collaboration Systems
Co-chairs: Robert O. Briggs bbriggs@GroupSystems.com Jay Nunamaker jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu
Decision Technologies and Service Sciences
Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk@nps.edu
Digital Media: Content and Communication
Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd@cs.cal.ca

E-Government
Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl@u.washington.edu

Electric Power Systems

Chair: Robert Thomas rjt1@cornell.edu

Information Technology in Health Care

Chair: William Chismar chismar@hawaii.edu
Internet & the Digital Economy
Co-chairs: David King david.king@jda.com Alan Dennis ardennis@indiana.edu

Knowledge Management Systems
Co-chairs: Murray Jennex murphjen@aol.com Dave Croasdell davec@unr.edu

Organizational Systems & Technology
Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson@terry.uga.edu

Software Technology

Co-chairs: Chair: Gul Agha agha@cs.uiuc.edu Rick Kazman kazman@hawaii.edu

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION

Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair sprague@hawaii.edu

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator hicss@hawaii.edu

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