With its emphasis on providing practical advice, Practical Product Lines 2010 is the ideal opportunity for managers, architects, developers and others to understand how to benefit from Software and System Product Lines methods, tools and technologies. The conference language will be English.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS
Submission Deadline - Friday July 16th 2010

We are seeking high-quality session proposals covering topics on any practical aspect of Software Product Lines

Sessions could cover topics such as:

• Product line architecture
• Domain analysis and domain engineering
• Model-driven development for software product lines
• Agile methods for software product lines
• Migrating legacy systems to product lines
• Multisite development with product lines
• Knowledge sharing within product lines
• Product line scoping, requirements engineering for product lines, testing software product lines, variability management
• Product line evolution
• Tool and technology development and adoption
• Other topics related to the practical realization of software product lines

Case studies and interactive sessions based on any aspect of these and related approaches are particularly encouraged although more theoretical sessions are also welcome.

Take part in Practical Product Lines 2010 and find out how you can boost your productivity while improving the quality and time-to-market of your products.

In addition to paying no conference fees, being a speaker gives you a unique opportunity to present your viewpoint to our audience.

MAKING A PROPOSAL

Making a session proposal isn't difficult. All we require is some basic information on the session you plan to run - enough to judge that it would be of value to our participants. We've come up with some suggested session types, but feel free to propose your own:

Session Types

Case Study / Experience Report

A presentation and discussion of real-life (not theoretical) experiences of Software Product Lines. Your proposal should include some description of any unique aspects of the case study, problems solved, lessons learned etc.

Tutorial

A presentation focused around some specific tool or technique. Primarily led by the speaker but should include some elements of interactivity or individual / group exercise.

Goldfish bowl

A facilitated discussion session based around a well-defined topic or question related to the conference themes. The session leader introduces the topic and may seed the session with particular questions or subtopics. A small number of 'experts' then debate the topic or question. However, participants are free to join in the discussion by taking the 'experts' places as they relinquish their seats.

Panel

A small group of 'experts' presents their views on some defined conference topic. Audience members may ask questions of the panel.

Think-Tank

There are many open issues related to the conference themes. A think-tank considers one or more such issues and aims to produce some outputs of value to the community. The session leader is responsible for managing the Think Tank and completing the session outputs.

Debate

Two groups of participants argue for or against a position with speakers alternating from each group. A facilitator manages the debating process. At the end of the debate the audience takes a vote to decide which team has won the debate.

SUBMITTING A SESSION

Please read our Terms and Conditions before submitting a session proposal.

Please include your session title, your name(s) and brief (< 100 words) biographical information, a contact email address and telephone number and/or Skype name.

If there are multiple session leaders then please include biographical and contact information for all speakers and indicate who the main point of contact is.

Session proposals should be made using one of our standard templates available as word , open office and plain text. You can make as many session proposals as you like.

These include the following information:

• Session title: a short title that sums up your session's content
• Session type: one of the above or some other type
• Session duration: (typically 45, 60, 90 or 180 minutes depending on the session type)
• Session abstract: a brief description oultining the key objectives and content of the session
• Session description: a fuller description of the session content incluidng details about whether the session has been run before
• Intended audience: roles / experience levels (any prior knowledge / skills required)
• Session outputs: Does the session have outputs that would be of interest to non-participants? Electronic outputs such as recordings will be made public after the event subject to the organiser's discretion.
• Availability: Whether there are any constraints in your participation or whether it makes sense to run your session before or after another session you've proposed.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

Session proposals should be made using one of our standard templates available as word , open office and plain text.

After preparing a proposal you should upload it into our submission and review system. We are using EasyChair this year which will be familiar to many regular conference speakers. If you have submitted to other conferences that use EasyChair, then you can reuse your existing Easychair login for PPL2010 submission. If not, then you first need to create an account. Full instructions on the submission process are available here.

Please note that sessions must be submitted no later than Friday July 16th 2010. Sessions submitted after this date will be considered at the organisers discretion.

WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT OUR PREVIOUS EVENTS

"The combined—for that matter, individual—expertise present was remarkable, and presented a tremendous opportunity for knowledge exchange."

"The presentations were all top quality, making it often difficult to decide between the concurrently running sessions. The wealth of ... knowledge present at the event was impressive, not only from the presenters, but from the other delegates as well."

"I enjoyed the conference very much, it has been the best conference of the last years I’ve been to. A very good selection of speakers, but I also think that the level of expertise of the audience was very high, much higher than I expected. ... it gives the opportunity to dig much deeper."

"... this has been the highest-quality conference on this topic that I've been to - and I've been to a few."

"I'll definitely try to attend next year and will recommend this conference to my colleagues and customers."

"... exhausting but thoroughly enjoyable and very informative"

"[A] great opportunity to meet with influential practitioners in the field."