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

✍ Scribed by Ivan Aaen (auth.), Pekka Abrahamsson, Richard Baskerville, Kieran Conboy, Brian Fitzgerald, Lorraine Morgan, Xiaofeng Wang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 9
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Technology Management