Software Product Management
Introduction
International Workshop on Software Product Management, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 12 Sep 2006; Deadline 15 Jun
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:12:20 +0200
From: Sjaak Brinkkemper <S.Brinkkemper@cs.uu.nl>
Call for Papers
International Workshop on Software Product Management
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, Tuesday, September 12, 2006
In conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference September 11-15, 2006, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Workshop Objective
In today’s competitive software markets it is of utmost interest to have winning products. The success of any software product depends on skill-full and competent product management. Software product management includes product requirements, release definition, product release lifecycles, creating an effective multifunctional product introduction team and – above all – assuring a winning business case. Indeed software product management is complex: there are many stakeholders, many responsibilities and no formalized education or body of (scientific) knowledge.
This workshop aims at increasing the body of knowledge for this specific area of requirements engineering by providing a forum to exchange ideas and publish results. It will build and shape the community of leading practitioners and research experts.
Given the relevance of product management in IT and software companies, and the rather unexplored scientific contribution in this field, the workshop will deliver a state-of-the-art overview of the available scientific and practical knowledge on software product management, as well as an overview of areas within software product management for further research.
Topics of interest
- Product management and requirements management
- Release definition and roadmapping
- Product management processes
- Product families and product line management
- Portfolio management and product life-cycle management
- Subcontracting, partnering and incorporation of open-source components
- Product strategy definition and marketing
- Measuring and improving the performance of the product manager
- Product management skill and competence building
- Structured customer contacts
- Product management at SME’s
- Tools for product management
Workshop proceedings
Proceedings of accepted papers will appear in electronic format, under an ISSN number. We are in search of a journal to allow for publishing of extended and revised versions of the best papers.
Paper preparation, submission and evaluation
We anticipate research and industry papers. Research papers should either not exceed 5,000 words (full research papers) or not exceed 3,000 words (work-in-progress/position research papers). They must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. To encourage industrial participation we also welcome short industry papers (2,000 words maximum). Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) to the organizers at IWSPM@cs.uu.nl. Submissions must be formatted according to the 8.5×11 inch IEEE CS proceedings format. For downloading instructions and templates, go to the Author Forms web page () of the IEEE Computer Society. Three reviewers of the workshop’s program committee will judge the quality of each submitted workshop paper. Proceedings will appear in electronic format.
Important dates
- June 15, 2006: Deadline for workshop submissions;
- July 17, 2006: Notification of authors;
- July 31, 2006: Camera-ready papers due.
All deadlines are 23:59 Apia, Samoa time.
Workshop organizing committee
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Christof Ebert, Alcatel, France
Johan Versendaal, Utrecht University, the Netherlands