CHASE 2026
Mon 13 - Tue 14 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Digital transformation and AI adoption are driving the need for agile, cross-functional teams to tackle complex socio-technical challenges. However, organizations often struggle to articulate the value these teams deliver. This study explores how such teams perceive, measure, and communicate value in a large-scale enterprise. Through an in-depth case study at a Finnish conglomerate, we analyzed data from value retrospectives across 61 cross-functional teams in retail, hospitality, traffic stations, and corporate functions. Using Socio-Technical Grounded Theory (STGT), we examined qualitative value retrospective outputs from teams combining business, customer, and technology expertise. The findings reveal that customer proximity influences value perception and measurement: teams closer to the customer quantify value more readily, while more distant ones rely on managerial support to align with enterprise goals. The type of team affects the types of values reported by the team more than the business domain. Our contributions include: (1) an extended value map categorizing perceived value types, (2) empirical insights on contextual influences in articulating value in software-intensive settings, and (3) practical implications for fostering value-oriented learning in agile organizations.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 14 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

14:00 - 15:30
Voices of Industry Panel, Agile, and Teams SessionVoices of the Industry Track / Research Track / CHASE Program at Oceania IX
Chair(s): Reed Milewicz Sandia National Laboratories, Denae Ford Microsoft Research
14:00
5m
Talk
Building an Open AIBOM Standard in the Wild
Voices of the Industry Track
Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur Queen's University
14:05
5m
Talk
Smart Paste: How Developer Behavior Shaped the Training of an LLM
Voices of the Industry Track
14:10
5m
Talk
Human Dimensions: The Blind Spot in Software Engineering
Voices of the Industry Track
Vini Kanvar IBM India Research Lab
14:15
5m
Talk
When IoT Meets Reality: Human Constraints in Field Deployment
Voices of the Industry Track
Federico Balaguer Stream S.A.
14:20
5m
Talk
How Academic Researchers Navigate Immediate, Near Future, and Moonshot Work in Industry
Voices of the Industry Track
Ilya Zakharov JetBrains Research
14:25
5m
Live Q&A
Voices of Industry Q&A (day 2)
Voices of the Industry Track

14:30
15m
Full-paper
From Customer Proximity to Enterprise Goals: How Agile Teams Perceive and Articulate Value
Research Track
Suvi Ihaksi LUT University, Maria Paasivaara LUT University, Finland & Aalto University, Finland, Sonja Hyrynsalmi LUT University
14:45
15m
Full-paper
Industry Insights on UX–Agile Process Integration: Challenges, Benefits, and Potential Solutions
Research Track
Fayaz Suleman University of North Carolina at Charlotte, David Wilson University of North Carolina at Charlotte
15:00
15m
Full-paper
Emotion Recognition in Agile Software Meetings: A Comparative Study of ML, DL, and Text-based LLM Approaches
Research Track
Eduardo Sardenberg Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Theo Canuto Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Paulo Mann Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Matheus Utino University of São Paulo (USP), Daniel Coutinho Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Anderson Uchôa Federal University of Ceará, Juliana Alves Pereira PUC-Rio
15:15
15m
Full-paper
Regression Testing in Remote and Hybrid Software Teams: An Exploratory Study of Processes, Tools, and Practices
Research Track
Juliane Pascoal CESAR School, Cleyton Magalhaes Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary