 | XP2026: 27th International Conference on Agile Software Development Insper Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 8-11, 2026 |
| Conference website | https://conf.researchr.org/home/xp-2026 |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xp2026 |
| Abstract registration deadline | November 7, 2025 |
| Submission deadline | November 14, 2025 |
27th International Conference on Agile Software Development.
XP is the premier conference on agile software development, uniquely combining research and practice. It’s where researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers come together to share their latest innovations and insights.
Originally launched 26 years ago with a focus on eXtreme Programming, the XP conference has evolved to embrace all modern agile approaches and the broadening dimensions of agility.
It’s an inclusive, international forum that sparks learning and inspiring conversations.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
Research Papers
Research Workshops
Industry and Practice Workshops
Short Papers
Call for submission
The academic track welcomes researchers and studies in methods and practices of Agile software development, especially those around the main theme of XP 2026 on “Expanding Agile: Transforming Today, Shaping a Sustainable and Inclusive Tomorrow”
Topics of Interest
We invite research papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Leadership and coaching
- Human aspects, morale, values, ethics, and beliefs
- Diversity and Inclusion in Agile
- Business and enterprise agility
- Business and startups
- Software startups
- Global software development and offshoring
- Large-scale agile organizations
Data-driven Agility and Transformations
- Measurement and metrics for projects, processes, software, and teams
- Qualitative/quantitative improvement techniques
- Tools and techniques for Agile and Lean development
- Agile Architectures
- Test-driven Development, Pair Programming, and Refactoring
- Development and operations (DevOps)
- Testing, release management, and deployment
- Continuous engineering and automation
- Engineering and management
- Requirements gathering
- User experience and user research
- Product management and product ownership
- Teaching experiences
- Empirical studies with students
- Agility for regulated AI systems
- Agile ML Engineering
- RegOps
- Agile for safety-critical systems
- Sustainability for teams, products, development, business models, and management
- Games and game-based techniques
- Foundations and conceptual studies
- Systematic literature reviews/mappings, and rapid reviews
- Empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
- Experiments and quasi-experiments
- Cross- and multi-disciplinary methods and studies
- Case studies, action research, ethnography, and field studies
Submissions based on empirical studies conducted under industry-academia collaboration are especially encouraged, sharing data/artifacts (anonymized and curated) to increase reproducibility, but not mandatory for submission or acceptance.
Submissions based on empirical studies conducted under industry-academia collaboration are especially encouraged, sharing data/artifacts (anonymized and curated) to increase reproducibility, but not mandatory for submission or acceptance.
All submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word), available here.
Committees
Program Committee
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TBD
Organizing committee
- Alfredo Goldman
- Graziela Simone Tonin
- Sabrina dos Santos Marczak
- Dairton Bassi
Publication
XP2026 proceedings will be published in Springer
Venue
The conference will be held in São Paulo Brazil, at Insper Institution, more details in https://conf.researchr.org/home/xp-2026.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to grazielast@insper.edu.br