ISBSG Conference Presentation Requirements

The conference targets two types of contributions:

Experience contributions: Problem statements and practiced solutions in planning and using benchmarking practices to help and drive strategic decision-making

Research contributions: Empirical studies, hypothesized models, and suggestions to establish effective benchmarking programs to improving software/service value management.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

• Approaches for cost-effective and sustainable benchmarking programs.
• Approaches to using standardized data for fact-based decision making, especially in agile environments.
• Approaches for standardized data collection, analysis, and standardization practices.
• Innovative Software Cost Estimation approaches, using parametric models and historical data.
• Requirements and constraints for designing effective benchmarking programs to achieve better value management.
• Benchmarking in SMEs (Small-Medium Enterprises) and VSE (Very Small Entities) and related constraints.
• Internal and external benchmarking for better strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making.
• Empirical studies on what could be the most effective measures/KPI to be considered in a benchmarking program and their level of granularity for properly supporting the decision-making process.
• Alignment of business, tactical, and operational goals and timing for revising the benchmarking strategy
• PDR/productivity variances and evidence in/after the COVID-19 period.

Presentations must not be longer than 25 slides, including no commercials (maximum a single slide presenting your organization).

The abstract can be written in MS-Word and should not be longer than 1 A4 page. The Conference language is English.

Submissions (abstracts/presentations) must be submitted to: staff@isbsg.org

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission: May 30, 2025
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 6, 2025
• Full presentation submission: June 20, 2025
• Conference date: June 27, 2025

Program Committee

• Pierre Almen (ISBSG, IFPUG, Sweden)
• Luigi Buglione (GUFPI-ISMA, IFPUG, DXC Technology, Italy)
• Harold van Heeringen (NESMA, IDC/Metri, Netherlands)