XP 2009 - Tenth International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering

http://www.xp2009.org/

May 25-29, 2009 Sardinia, Italy

XP 2009 is the leading conference on Agile Methods for software development and industry management held annually in Europe. XP 2009 is the tenth consecutive conference with outstanding future ahead.

The event in brief (for more details, please look at http://www.xp2009.org/). The conference offers a broad selection of experiences and interaction opportunities with leaders of the agile software development community.

Keynotes

* Mary Poppendieck "The Cultural Assumptions behind Agile Software Development"
* Ivar Jacobson "What they don't teach you about software at school: Be Smart!"
* Bjarte Bogsnes "A Journey Beyond Budgeting

Tutorials

* Elements of an art - Agile Coaching (Lundh)
* From User Story to User Interface (Patton)
* Promise is Debt - System Dynamics of Technical Debt (van den Ende, Evers)
* Framing Lean Software Development (Poppendieck)
* Adventures in Retrospectives (Larsen)
* Test-Driven Development with Mock Objects (Freeman)
* Creating Proximity Over a Distance (Eckstein)
* Agile Analysis (Vandemaele)
* Barely Sufficient Portfolio Management (Little)
* Refactoring Strategies, Tactics & Tools (Kerievsky)
* Scaling Agility (Ivar Jacobson)
* Collaboration using the Agile Testing Quadrants (Gregory)
* More about Beyond Budgeting - the full story (Bogsnes)
* Kanban and the Zen of Lean Pull Systems (Anderson)
* Working with CRRAP - Agility + Legacy (Hill)


Workshops

* The Lego Lean Game (Danilo Sato and Francisco Trindade)
* Process Smells and Root Cause Analysis (Dave Nicolette)
* Coaching Agile in Large Organisations (Thomas Nilsson)
* What Does an Agile Coach Do? (Rachel Davies and James Pullicino)
* Mechanics of Good: Creating Well-Functioning Distributed Teams (Lars Arne Skår and Jan-Erik Sandberg)
* Test-Driven User Interfaces (Charlie Poole)
* The New New NEW! Product Development Game (Mark Evers and Willem van den Ende)
* Positioning Agility (Nilay Oza, Pekka Abrahamsson and Kieran Conboy)
* Product Owners Jamboree (Patrick Steyaert and Tom Tourwé)
* Climbing the Dreyfus Ladder of Agile Practices (Patrick Kua)
* Software "Best" Practices: Agile Deconstructed (Steve Fraser)
* Agile Product Line Engineering (Yaser Ghanam, Kendra Cooper, Pekka Abrahamsson and Frank Maurer)
* Test Driven Development: Performing Art (Emily Bache)
* Scrapheap Challenge (Lasse Koskela and Willem van den Ende)
* Business Value Game (Artem Marchenko and Vasco Duarte)
* Agile Research: A 10-Year Retrospective (Xiaofeng Wang, Minna Pikkarainen and Kieran Conboy)
* Continuous Integration (Thomas Sundberg)
* Executable Requirements in Practice (Pekka Klärck, Juha Rantanen and Janne Härkönen)
* Scrum Board Game (Wim van de Goor and Stefan van den Oord)
* Explaining the Obvious: How Do You Teach Agile? (Erik Lundh)
* Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches (Muhammad Ali Babar and Pekka Abrahamsson)
* Assessing the Effectiveness of Agile Methods (Massimiliano Di Penta, Sandro Morasca and Alberto Sillitti)
* Telling Your Stories: Why Stories Are Important for Your Team (Diana Larsen and Johanna Hunt)

Papers

* Testing
o Eunha Kim, Jongchae Na and Seokmoon Ryoo: Developing a Test Automation Framework for Agile Development and Testing
o Artem Marchenko, Pekka Abrahamsson and Tuomas Ihme: Long-Term Effects of Test-Driven Development. A Longitudinal Case Study
o Shelly Park and Frank Maurer: Communicating Domain Knowledge in Executable Acceptance Test Driven Development
o Andreas Höfer and Marc Philipp: An Empirical Study on the TDD Conformance of Novice and Expert Pair Programmers

* Standards and Lessons-Learned
o Célio Santana, Cristine Gusmao, Liana Soares, Caryna Pinheiro, Teresa Maciel, Alexandre Vasconcelos and Ana Rouiller. Agile Software Development and CMMI: What we do not know about Dancing with Elephants
o Giuseppe Lami and Fabio Falcini. Is ISO/IEC 15504 Applicable to Agile Methods?
o Paul Murphy and Brian Donnellan. Lesson Learned from an Agile Implementation Project
o Sharon Coyle. Risk Management in Agile Methods: A Study of DSDM in Practice
o Fabio Abbattista, Alessandro Bianchi and Filippo Lanubile. A Storytest-Driven Approach to the Migration of Legacy Systems
o Gabriel Tellez-Morales. XP Practices: a successful tool for increasing and transferring practical knowledge in short-life software development projects

* Research and Education
o Nils Brede Moe, Torgeir Dingsøyr and Emil Røyrvik: Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test - An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development
o Chaehan So and Wolfgang Scholl: Perceptive Agile Measurement: New Instruments for Quantitative Studies in the Pursuit of the Social-Psychological Effect of Agile Practices
o Finn Olav Bjørnson and Torgeir Dingsøyr: A Survey of Perceptions on Knowledge Management Schools in Agile and Traditional Software Development Environments
o Jennifer Brown and Joseph Chao. Empowering Students and the Community through Agile Software Development Service-Learning

* Customer Communication and User Involvement
o Mikko Korkala, Minna Pikkarainen and Kieran Conboy. Distributed Agile Development:A Case Study on Customer Communication Challenges
o Karlheinz Kautz. Customer and User Involvement in Agile Software Development
o Zahid Hussain, Harald Milchrahm, Sara Shahzad, Wolfgang Slany, Manfred Tscheligi and Peter Wolkerstorfer. Integration of Extreme Programming and User-Centered Design: Lessons Learned
o Agustin Yague, Pilar Rodriguez and Juan Garbajosa. Optimizing Agile Processes by Early Identification of Hidden Requirements
o Rashina Hoda, James Noble and Stuart Marshall. Negotiating Contracts for Agile Projects: A Practical Perspective

* Teams and Organizations
o Irina Diana Coman, Alberto Sillitti and Giancarlo Succi. An Exploratory Study of Developers' Toolbox in an Agile Team
o Hamish Barney, Nils Moe, Tore Dyba, Aybuke Aurum and Martha Winata: Balancing Individual and Collaborative Work in Agile Teams
o Jayakanth Srinivasan and Kristina Lundqvist. Organizational Enablers for Agile Adoption:Learning from GameDevCo
o Kirsi Korhonen: Migrating Defect Management from Waterfall to Agile Software Development in a Large-Scale Multi-Site Organization:a Case Study

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