Lean-Agile Frontiers (LAF 2019)

October 28 - 29, 2019, San Jose, CA, USA

Scope & Topics

The Lean-Agile Frontiers forum aims to spearhead a serious discussion and collaboration between researchers & practitioners or academia & industry. Our mission is to expand the frontiers of knowledge across Lean, Agile, DevSecOps, Design / Service Thinking, Digital Transformation, Organization Design, Change Management, and Innovation. Our focus is how each of these disciplines and cultures reshape modern Enterprises.

The forum launches reality informed scientific inquiries for new ways of working while addressing emerging challenges in transforming to Lean-Agile Enterprises.

Topics of Interest :

• Lean-Agile leadership and management
• Lean-Agile metrics and maturity assessment
• Agile frameworks and applicability
• System thinking and ecosystem
• Product Discovery and Innovation Practices
• DevSecOps
• Design Thinking, Service Design, Innovation
• Teaching Lean-Agile Practices in academia
• Lean-Agile enterprise and organization
• Enterprise Engineering
• Agile Transformation and Adoption Organizations
• Holacracy and Self-Organization
• Organization Models; Spotify
• Innovation Organization Structures and Cultures
• Agile transformation and implementation
• Agile transformation challenges
• Agile implementation anti-patterns
• Lean-Agile journey and roadmap
• Change management and leading change

Paper Submission

Authors may decide to submit their papers into one of the categories by themselves and the conference chairs may decide based on the reviews to recommend a Research Paper as an Industry Presentation

Research Papers: max. 15 pages long presenting mature research results

Industry Presentations: max. 8 pages long presenting practical experience, results, and case studies

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