Ebook: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP 2008, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2008.

Out of 54 submitted papers, 16 were accepted as full papers, 4 experience reports, 14 poster papers, 9 workshop papers, and 3 contributions on panel discussions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile innovations, adaptation of agile, agile testing and assessment, history and evolution of agile, people factors in agile environments, conceptual models of agility, and experience reports.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP 2008, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2008.

Out of 54 submitted papers, 16 were accepted as full papers, 4 experience reports, 14 poster papers, 9 workshop papers, and 3 contributions on panel discussions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile innovations, adaptation of agile, agile testing and assessment, history and evolution of agile, people factors in agile environments, conceptual models of agility, and experience reports.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP 2008, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2008.

Out of 54 submitted papers, 16 were accepted as full papers, 4 experience reports, 14 poster papers, 9 workshop papers, and 3 contributions on panel discussions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile innovations, adaptation of agile, agile testing and assessment, history and evolution of agile, people factors in agile environments, conceptual models of agility, and experience reports.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Scrum and Team Effectiveness: Theory and Practice....Pages 1-10
Misfit or Misuse? Lessons from Implementation of Scrum in Radical Product Innovation....Pages 11-20
Method Configuration: The eXtreme Programming Case....Pages 21-31
Adopting Agile in a Large Organisation....Pages 32-41
An Observational Study of a Distributed Card Based Planning Environment....Pages 42-52
The TDD-Guide Training and Guidance Tool for Test-Driven Development....Pages 53-62
JExample: Exploiting Dependencies between Tests to Improve Defect Localization....Pages 63-72
An Agile Development Process and Its Assessment Using Quantitative Object-Oriented Metrics....Pages 73-82
Historical Roots of Agile Methods: Where Did “Agile Thinking” Come From?....Pages 83-93
Seven Years of XP - 50 Customers, 100 Projects and 500 Programmers – Lessons Learnt and Ideas for Improvement....Pages 94-103
Applying XP to an Agile–Inexperienced Software Development Team....Pages 104-113
Investigating the Usefulness of Pair-Programming in a Mature Agile Team....Pages 114-126
Just Enough Structure at the Edge of Chaos: Agile Information System Development in Practice....Pages 127-136
A Preliminary Conceptual Model for Exploring Global Agile Teams....Pages 137-146
Scrum Implementation Using Kotter’s Change Model....Pages 147-160
Agile Estimation with Monte Carlo Simulation....Pages 161-171
The Pomodoro Technique for Sustainable Pace in Extreme Programming Teams....Pages 172-179
Adopting Iterative Development: The Perceived Business Value....Pages 180-184
Explicit Risk Management in Agile Processes....Pages 185-189
APDT: An Agile Planning Tool for Digital Tabletops....Pages 190-201
Investigating the Role of Trust in Agile Methods Using a Light Weight Systematic Literature Review....Pages 202-203
Agile Practices in a Product Development Organization....Pages 204-207
Building and Linking a Metaphor: Finding Value!....Pages 208-209
The Story of Transition to Agile Software Development....Pages 210-211
Predicting Software Fault Proneness Model Using Neural Network....Pages 212-214
Multi-modal Functional Test Execution....Pages 215-217
Social Network Analysis of Communication in Open Source Projects....Pages 218-219
Toward Empowering Extreme Programming from an Architectural Viewpoint....Pages 220-221
A Metric-Based Approach to Assess Class Testability....Pages 222-223
Inside View of an Extreme Process....Pages 224-225
To Track QA Work or Not; That Is the Question....Pages 226-227
Build Notifications in Agile Environments....Pages 228-229
Supporting Distributed Pair Programming with the COLLECE Groupware System: An Empirical Study....Pages 230-231
Experience on the Human Side of Agile....Pages 232-233
Retrospective Exploration Workshop....Pages 234-235
Exposing the “Devils” within: Agile Taboos in a Large Organization....Pages 236-237
BIOHAZARD – Engineering the Change Virus....Pages 238-239
Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches....Pages 240-241
Exploring Agile Coaching....Pages 242-243
The Agile Technique Hour....Pages 244-245
AOSTA: Agile Open Source Tools Academy....Pages 246-247
There’s No Such Thing as Best Practice....Pages 248-249
Culture and Agile: Challenges and Synergies....Pages 250-250
Architecture and Agility Are Not Mutually Exclusive....Pages 251-255
Back Matter....Pages 256-256
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