SDG 2011 - 4th Workshop on Software Development Governance (SDG 2011)

4th Workshop on Software Development Governance (SDG 2011)

In conjunction with
the 33th International Conference on Software Engineering ® (ICSE)
Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, 21-28 May 2011
http://2011.icse-conferences.org/

SDG deals with decisions that 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. We provide an extended stage to discuss business, organizational, and governance issues in different situations concerning different development artifacts and roles.
Describing SDG we distinguish between top-down governance that includes organizational policies and regulations and bottom-up governance that emerges from team and project level and includes best practices to scale-up with.
In this workshop, we seek to share research and experiences that concern with the SDG practice thus enhance existing development processes.

The main goal of the workshop is to explore the relationship between business goals, organizational structure, software architecture, 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 are interested in a broad set of topics related to software development governance:
¨ 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
¨ Methods and tools to define and deploy software development governance approaches
¨ 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 different software development processes
¨ Balancing the need for oversight and managerial control with agile development
¨ Governance in outsourced and federated development
¨ How architectural and design authority is enforced
¨ Managing exceptions in complex processes
¨ Governance in highly regulated environments.
¨ The relation between software development processes and the governance structure.

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 http://cyberchairpro3.borbala.net/sdgpapers/submit... .

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.

Important Dates

Submission date: January 21, 2011

Notification on: February 18, 2011
Camera-ready: March 8, 2011

Workshop day: May 22, 2011