IWSPM 2009

Paper Version of the Call for Papers

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Topics of Interest

Submitted papers shall address topics of interest to software product management. Topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

- Product management practices in software, software intensive systems, and IT domains
- Requirements engineering in relation to product management
- Large-scale requirements handling and requirements triage
- Product strategy definition and marketing
- Release definition and roadmapping
- Product management processes
- Product families and product line management
- Portfolio management and product life-cycle management
- Innovation Management for Software Products
- Subcontracting, partnering and incorporation of open-source components
- Software supply networks and Software ecosystems
- Service as a software product
- Measuring and improving the performance of the product manager
- Product management skill and competence building
- Alignment of product development with company and market needs
- Business case development
- Negotiation, coordination, and control
- Product management at SME’s
- Tools for product management

Paper preparation, submission and evaluation

We invite original submissions of high quality papers in 2 categories.

Research papers – technical solutions, empirical studies and survey papers. Research papers are expected to explain how the problem being addressed is relevant to the workshop topics, describe the research approach, and solution papers are further to include preliminary validation.

Industry practice papers – industry and domain-specific reports. Industry papers are expected to provide sufficient context for understanding the challenges and insights, and to make the more general lessons for software product management clear to others.

In both categories it is possible to submit:
- Full papers (up to 10 pages)
- Short/position/vision papers (up to 4 pages).

Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality papers written in English via the EasyChair submission system. Paper submission is closed.

Submissions must be formatted according to the IEEE CS proceedings format. Instructions and templates: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop program and proceedings.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and participate during the workshop.

Workshop Proceedings and Journal Publication

Proceedings of accepted papers will appear in electronic format, in the IEEE CS Digital Library.

There will be a best paper award in terms of an opportunity for publication of an extended version in Information and Software Technology (IST) published by Elsevier.