CfP: 3rd SDG 2010 @ ICSE

Call For Submissions 3rd Workshop on Software Development Governance (SDG 2010) http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~yael/SDG2010/ incorporated Leadership and Management in Software Architecture (LMSA) Workshop In conjunction with the 32nd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010) www.sbs.co.za/ICSE2010 Cape Town, South Africa, May 2-8, 2010 Important Dates: 25th January 2010 - paper submission 15th February 2010 - notification of acceptance 3rd March 2010 - camera-ready 8th May 2010 - workshop Software Development Governance is the key meeting point between software development processes and the business and regulatory context in which these processes must operate. Software organizations need to perform in a complex and demanding environment, and they are required to deliver more value in an effective and efficient manner while controlling the operational risks and meeting regulations. Studies show that effective governance is one of the key mechanisms by which organizations can guarantee meeting their business goals. Implementing governance in software projects enhances the ability to deal with risks and supports consistent decision making. These decisions are part of the development process e.g., business and organizational decisions that impact the technical decisions concerned with the product architecture and the product quality. The main goal of the workshop is to explore the relationship between business goals, organizational structure, and software development governance and the ways effective technical practices can be achieved given a particular set of goals and a particular organizational structure. We invite papers that deal topics related to software development governance, including (but not limited to): * Governance models and frameworks * Development environment support for software development governance * Governance mechanisms (policies, controls and measurements) that relate to contemporary software development projects and organizations * Governance roles and responsibilities in software development settings * The lifecycle of software development governance * Ways to assess software development governance and its effects * Enforcement of architectural and design authority * Managing exceptions in complex processes * Governance in highly regulated environments * Methods and tools to define and deploy software development governance approaches * Mining development processes * The evolution of development processes * Governance in software teams: distributed teams, agile teams, large-scale projects * The role of software development governance in achieving the business value and risk associated with projects including crisis management * Effective measurement of software development governance * Risk and valuation techniques for software development governance * Individual, societal, ethical or cultural issues raised by software development governance * Methods for increasing the awareness of the relationship between business, organizational, governance and the achievement of technical goals * Organizational structures appropriate to development processes * Balancing the need for oversight and managerial control with agile development * Governance in outsourced and federated development Submission Guidelines Submissions should be full research papers or short papers describing work-in-progress, or new ideas relevant to governance of software development. Papers must conform to the ICSE proceedings publication format and should not exceed 8 pages for full paper and 4 pages for short paper, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Electronic submission is available through ICSE Cyberchair site. Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work and to their ability to generate discussions between the participants of the workshop. 3rd SDG Organizers Yael Dubinsky, IBM Haifa Research Lab Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia Anthony Finkelstein, University College London Len Bass, Software Engineering Institute, CMU Sunita Chulani, Cisco Systems Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS Program Committee Len Bass, Software Engineering Institute, CMU (organizer) Michel Benaroch, Syracuse University Brian Berenbach, Siemens Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo Sunita Chulani, Cisco Systems (organizer) Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, CMU Yael Dubinsky, IBM Haifa Research Lab (organizer) Anthony Finkelstein, University College London (organizer) Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University Rick Kazman, Software Engineering Institute, CMU John Klein, Software Engineering Institute, CMU Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia (organizer) Frank Maurer, University of Calgary Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS (organizer) Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia Peri Tarr, IBM Watson Research Giuseppe Valetto, Drexel University Avi Yaeli, IBM Haifa Research Lab