Agile Training and EducationXP 2026

Call for submission

This track provides a venue for discussing all aspects of teaching and learning related to agile software engineering.

Topics of Interest

Learning is core to the agile philosophy as we aim for continuous improvement, and many of us in the community find ourselves involved in teaching in various forms from day to day—whether that be acting as a coach for a development team, influencing as a manager, running training courses, or teaching the students who will become the next generation of professionals.

• How can we teach agile concepts effectively? Either to students in formal learning environments, or to practitioners in industry, and how can we apply our knowledge of agile and lean in developing these learning experiences?

• How can we optimize for learning? Individually, as a team, as someone designing a development organization, or as someone creating a learning experience.

In this track, we aim to mix experience reports, short talks, interactive sessions, and discussions. We want to learn from your experiences and to develop new ideas. From university professors to industrial coaches and learning organizations—please propose topics and sessions to push forward the state of practice.

Submissions

We look forward to a mix of formats, not just presentations and experience reports, but discussions (perhaps a goldfish bowl / park bench), practical workshop sessions with outputs, facilitated exercises, hands-on sessions, games, etc.— be creative!

We invite two types of submissions:

1) Session proposals

2) Experience reports

See below a detailed description of each submission type:

 1) Your session proposal should contain (at least) the following information:

• Title

• Abstract: Explain the general topic and highlight areas the session will cover

• Proposed Length of Session: 15 or 30 mins for presentations, 30 / 60 / 90 mins for interactive sessions

-Learning outcomes: 1-3 reasons why a participant should come to this session and what the lessons learned might be

• Session style: Talk, demo, facilitated discussion, hands-on, game, etc.

• Outline of presentation/session: For interactive sessions, how will it run?

• Prerequisites required of attendees: E.g., basic knowledge in…, familiarity with…, etc.

• Level: Introductory, practicing, expert

• Short biography of the presenter(s)

• Any additional information for the program committee that helps decide on your submission

Please submit your session proposal as a PDF up to 2 A4 pages in length.

For successful submissions, we will also use this information for an online description of the program, but you will have the opportunity to revise your session description (if you wish) to address attendees rather than the program committee before the program goes online.

2) An experience report is a short paper (max 8 pages) that will be published in the post-conference proceedings and presented at the conference as a short talk.

In your experience report, you share your practical insights from teaching/training an agile or lean topic for students or practitioners. The experience report provides an opportunity for you to share your innovative approach/technique to educate agile learners that other educators might also be interested in trying out. This is done through a written report and an accompanying talk. Thus, you should include enough information that others could try it out!

An experience report is a personal text about your experiences. We encourage authors to introduce themselves and their teaching context to the readers and to reflect on their experience, e.g., how you planned and taught your training on an agile topic and what the lessons learned for teaching were (e.g.,what was good, what was challenging, what could we do differently). Both success and failure stories are interesting!

The experience report should contain unpublished experiences on agile education and training that would be of interest to other educators and trainers.

All experience report submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word).

Submit here: (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xp2026)

The authors of accepted submissions will receive a discount on the conference fee.

Review Criteria

Submissions will be evaluated based on these criteria:

• Relevance to educators

• Relevance to practitioners

• Likelihood of starting a discussion

-Likelihood of presenting/generating actionable takeaways

-Being something interesting and new, not something boring and established

Questions?

Contact our track chairs

• Philipp Diebold, IU International University of Applied Science & Bagilstein GmbH (philipp.diebold@bagilstein.de)

• Maria Paasivaara, LUT University, Finland (maria.paasivaara@lut.fi)

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: Jan 19th , 2026
• Notification to authors: Feb 3rd, 2026
• Deadline to acknowledge acceptance: Feb 5th , 2026
• Camera-ready submission of experience reports: April 21st , 2026