Call for papers - Conference 2009

The 20th Annual UKSMA Conference will be held on Thursday October 15th 2009, in Central London.

The conference affords the opportunity to share experiences, ideas, case studies, and strategies for widening the relevance, appeal and benefit of measurement to the management of software development and maintenance.

The theme of the conference this year, New Directions in Software Measurement, is wide ranging to reflect the increasingly diverse nature of software measurement and changes in the software developmentcommunity.

We are keen to receive submissions/abstracts on the topics of:

• innovative and original approaches to software measurement;
• introduction of measurement to software development environments;
• the presentation of measurement data to aid decision making;
• best practice in measurement;
• estimation;
• measurement use in contracts or outsourced arrangements;
• the use and benefits of measurement data;
• measurement in CMMI, ITIL, Prince2 and ISO contexts.

Case studies of these topics that provide a balanced view of the development and use of measurement would be particularly welcome.

You are invited to submit papers or presentations to conference@uksma.co.uk.

Please submit a short description (a précis) summarising your presentation. Each presenter has 45 minutes, including 10 minutes for questions.

It would be appreciated if you would indicate your intention to submit a paper as soon as possible even if a précis is not yet available, so that we can gauge the response.

The deadline for précis submission is 27 Mar 2009.

Notification of acceptance by 30 Apr 2009.

Information about UKSMA can be found at www.uksma.co.uk.