PosterXP 2026

The Posters Track welcomes submissions from researchers, practitioners, and PhD students. We encourage submissions that cover various forms of research, including but not limited to empirical, theoretical, and tool-oriented investigations. The topics of interest for the posters track align with those of the main conference and encompass all areas related to research and practice in agile software development. The primary objective of the poster session is to foster face-to-face discussions among conference participants, promoting reflection on the past, sharing innovative ideas in the early stages of research, and inspiring visions for the future. We believe that this interactive setting will spark collaboration between practitioners and researchers on their projects.

The posters will be displayed all day long during the conference day, allowing attendees to visit the posters at their convenience. However, authors will attend their posters only during the assigned Poster Session time frames (which will be published online when the final program is available). At least one author of each accepted poster must register for the conference and present the work during the poster session. Each accepted poster can be accompanied by a paper (up to 4 pages), which will be included in the post-conference proceedings, along with PhD papers and academic workshop papers. These proceedings will be published with Springer in their Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: Dec 15, 2025 (AoE).
• Author notification: Jan 05, 2026 (AoE).

Topics of Interest

At XP2026, we are seeking contributions that explore innovative approaches to improving Agile practices and methodologies in real-world software development:

• 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 multidisciplinary methods and studies
• Case studies, action research, ethnography, and field studies
• Whether your work addresses new challenges or opportunities in Agile, XP2026 is the platform to share your vision for shaping the future of software development.

Submissions

We invite two types of poster submissions: - Standalone Poster: A standalone poster without an accompanying extended abstract in the Springer format. Participants who wish to discuss early-stage research or industrial applications without a publication in the proceedings may fit in this category. Moreover, participants in the PhD Symposium are invited to submit their work here without undergoing an additional poster review process. - Extended Abstract + Poster: A poster accompanied by an extended abstract of four pages (including figures, tables, and references) in the Springer format. Participants who wish to discuss ongoing research or share innovative tools with a publication in the proceedings may fit in this category. If accepted, the extended abstract will be published in the Springer post-proceedings.

All submissions will undergo a single-blind reviewing process, conducted by at least two members of the Program Committee. Authors of extended abstracts should consult Springer’s author guidelines and use their proceedings templates for LaTeX or Word for submission preparation.

The poster should outline your contribution. It should be a balance of visuals and text. There is no standard template for posters. For LaTeX, we recommend using Beamer or Tikz. Submit here: link

Poster Printing

For all accepted poster abstracts, authors should prepare and bring a printed poster themselves. The recommended poster size is A1 (59.4 mm x 841 mm).

Evaluation

The XP 2026 main conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) as Open Access. Submissions will be screened on rigor and relevance and then evaluated by at least two program committee members based on soundness, significance, novelty, verifiability, and presentation quality.

Questions?

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the track chairs: Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (r.cordeiro.ferreira@jads.nl) Thatiane de Oliveira Rosa (thatiane@ifto.edu.br)

Track Chairs

• Renato Cordeiro Ferreira.
• Thatiane de Oliveira Rosa.