2nd Workshop on Measurement-based Cockpits for Distributed Software and Systems Engineering Projects (SOFTPIT 2008)
In conjunction with the
June 23 - 25, 2008, Frascati, Rome, Italy
Unfortunately, we had to cancel the SOFTPIT workshop for PROFES 2008, because of too few registrations. However, we want to thank you for your interest in the workshop. We are sorry for that decision and hope that there won't be any problems for you related with that decision. Next year, we will rework the concept of the workshop. We plan to do a much more interactive workshop and will also have some invited talks in order to stimulate discussion. News will be published via this web site as usual.
Goals
In order to successfully conduct global development projects, one crucial success factor is the existence of well-specified and coordinated distributed development processes. Therefore, it is necessary to have efficient management and controlling mechanisms in place. Many companies are currently establishing so-called software cockpits for systematic quality assurance and management support. A software cockpit is comparable to an aircraft cockpit, which centrally integrates all relevant information for monitoring, controlling, and management purposes. In practice, a variety of simple dashboards approaches for project control exists. However, approaches supporting advanced management techniques and allowing for organization-wide data collection, interpretation, and visualization are rarely implemented.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss techniques, methods, and tools for the measurement-based management of globally distributed software development projects and to share experiences among researchers and practitioners. Efficiently managing distributed development projects (multi-sited and multi-organizational) implies many challenges that need to be addressed by software engineering research. Typical research questions address the problems of how to cope with different cultures or heterogeneous organizational structures, platforms, measurement systems, and process maturities. Other research areas include the establishment of data security, transparency, confidence in integrated data and interpretation models, and well-coordinated development processes and interfaces.
Workshop Theme
The workshop will discuss techniques, methods, and tools that support the effective management of distributed development projects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Data-driven management of distributed development projects
- Strategies for distributed management and controlling
- Key performance indicators and success factors for managing distributed projects
- Introduction and application of distributed control mechanisms
- Cultural, technical, social, and organizational issues for distributed project management
- Efficient mechanisms for aggregation and drill-down of distributed data
- Innovative visualization mechanisms and stakeholder-specific views for distributed control centers
- Goal-oriented measurement
- Process-/tool integration and harmonization in distributed environments
Target Audience
The workshop addresses practitioners and researchers who are interested in the management of distributed software projects and in innovative techniques and methods for distributed project control. Practitioners and researchers are encouraged to submit new approaches, experience reports, success cases, or failure stories, addressing at least one of the technical issues raised above.
Paper Submissions
Papers should be submitted in PDF format per Email to
Jens Heidrich. Please note that only those papers will be considered for review, which do not exceed 7 pages and adhere to the layout instructions detailed in the layout guidelines. Please download the
authoring guidelines and make sure that your paper fulfills all format requirements.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: April 18
- Paper notification of acceptance: May 6
- Final camera ready papers due: May 23
Organizing Committee
- Marcus Ciolkowski, Fraunhofer IESE, Email: marcus.ciolkowski@iese.fraunhofer.de
- Jens Heidrich, Fraunhofer IESE, Email: jens.heidrich@iese.fraunhofer.de
- Jürgen Münch, Fraunhofer IESE, Email: juergen.muench@iese.fraunhofer.de
- Marco Kuhrmann, TU München, Email: kuhrmann@in.tum.de
Program
| 09:30am-10:00am | Welcome Session
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| 10:00am-11:00am | Invited Talk and Discussion: Dr. Jürgen Münch (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
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| 11:00am-11:30am | Coffee Break
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| 11:30am-12:30am | Invited Talk and Discussion: Prof. Dr. Hajimu Iida (Nara Institiute of Science and Technology, Japan)
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| 12:30pm-01:30pm | Lunch
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| 01:30pm-02:30pm | Paper Presentations and Discussion
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| 02:30pm-03:30pm | Working Groups Discussion Part 1
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| 03:30am-04:00am | Coffee Break
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| 04:00pm-05:00pm | Working Groups Discussion Part 2
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| 05:00pm-05:30pm | Wrap Up |
Program Committee
- Rainer Bloch, LogControl GmbH, Germany
- Marcus Ciolkowski, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
- Jens Heidrich, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
- Hajimu Iida, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Philip Johnson, University of Hawaii, USA
- Patrick Keil, TU München, Germany
- Marco Kuhrmann, TU München, Germany
- Bernhard Kurpicz, OrgaTech GmbH, Germany
- Claus Lewerentz, BTU Cottbus, Germany
- Mikael Lindvall, Fraunhofer CESE, USA
- Jürgen Münch, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
- Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil
- Birk Siegmund, T-Systems MMS, Germany
- Frank Simon, SQS AG, Germany
- Darja Smite, Riga Information Technology Institute, Latvia
