Lean and Agile Software Development: 5th International Conference, LASD 2021, Virtual Event, January 23, 2021, Proceedings

Agile software development is tested most sharply when teams face uncertainty: disrupted routines, shifting priorities, and requirements that are difficult to pin down. These LASD 2021 proceedings gather research on those pressures and on the practices teams use to respond—from pandemic-era remote work to product roadmapping and pair programming.

Edited by Adam Przybyłek, Jakub Miler, Alexander Poth, and Andreas Riel, the volume offers a research-centered view of lean and agile software development. Its papers connect questions of team collaboration with portfolio decisions, requirements, retrospectives, and technical approaches to uncertainty.

Agile practice under changing conditions

Several contributions consider the effects of COVID-19 on software teams and project work, including case studies and research on adapting Scrum with lean principles for remote work. Together, they make the challenges of sustaining agile ways of working in unusual circumstances a central thread of the collection.

From team dynamics to project direction

The proceedings look beyond day-to-day team practices to examine women’s advancement and teamwork quality, agility in IT project portfolios, and product roadmapping for uncertain markets. These perspectives help place agile work in its wider organizational setting.

Requirements, evidence, and technical methods

Readers will find research on implementing non-functional requirements, business-oriented requirements elicitation, and the use of data in retrospectives. Other papers investigate random-forest classification for reducing development uncertainty and mutation-spectra techniques for fault localization. A keynote paper examines pair programming in an agile software development environment.

For readers exploring software engineering research

This proceedings volume is suited to software engineering researchers, students, and practitioners looking for focused studies rather than a single prescriptive framework. Its varied papers offer points of comparison across agile teams, project management, requirements work, and software quality—useful material for readers assessing how research findings relate to practice.