# XP — International Conference on Agile Software Development

- **Submission deadline**: 2025-11-21
- **Notification date**: 2026-01-09
- **Conference date**: 2026-04-08
- **Location**: Sao Paulo, Brazil
- **Rankings**: CORE B
- **Conference Partner Index**: 59.2/100 (ranked #630, confidence 0.80, algorithm 1.1) — how this is computed: https://www.myhuiban.com/ranking
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- **Attendees**: 0
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## Call for papers

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 Culture Leadership and coaching Human aspects, morale, values, ethics, and beliefs Diversity and Inclusion in Agile Business Agility 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 Engineering 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 Product and Design Requirements gathering User experience and user research Product management and product ownership Education and Training Teaching experiences Empirical studies with students Emerging Topics 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 Studies and Evaluations 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.

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## Related journals

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