Pekka Abrahamsson

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008, Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Pekka Abrahamsson 2008 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: 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: Agile Innovations -- Essence: Facilitating Agile Innovation / Ivan Aaen -- Scrum and Team Effectiveness: Theory and Practice / Nils Brede Moe, Torgeir Dingsoyr -- Misfit or Misuse? Lessons from Implementation of Scrum in Radical Product Innovation / Jens Henrik Hosbond, Peter Axel Nielsen -- Adaptation of Agile -- Method Configuration: The eXtreme Programming Case / Fredrik Karlsson, Par J. Agerfalk -- Adopting Agile in a Large Organisation / Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, Helen Sharp -- An Observational Study of a Distributed Card Based Planning Environment / Robert Morgan, Frank Maurer, Mike Chiasson -- Agile Testing and Assessment -- The TDD-Guide Training and Guidance Tool for Test-Driven Development / Oren Mishali, Yael Dubinsky, Shmuel Katz -- JExample: Exploiting Dependencies between Tests to Improve Defect Localization / Adrian Kuhn, Bart Van Rompaey, Lea Haensenberger, Oscar Nierstrasz, Serge Demeyer, Markus Gaelli, Koenraad Van Leemput -- An Agile Development Process and Its Assessment Using Quantitative Object-Oriented Metrics / Giulio Concas, Marco Di Francesco, Michele Marchesi, Roberta Quaresima, Sandro Pinna -- History and Evolution of Agile -- Historical Roots of Agile Methods: Where Did Agile Thinking Come From? / Noura Abbas, Andrew M. Gravell, Gary B. Wills -- Seven Years of XP - 50 Customers, 100 Projects and 500 Programmers - Lessons Learnt and Ideas for Improvement / Mike Holcombe, Chris Thomson -- People Factors in Agile Environments -- Applying XP to an Agile-Inexperienced Software Development Team / Liana Silva, Celio Santana, Fernando Rocha, Maira Paschoalino, Gabriel Falconieri, Lucio Ribeiro, Renata Medeiros, Sergio Soares, Cristine Gusmao -- Investigating the Usefulness of Pair-Programming in a Mature Agile Team / Irina Diana Coman, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi -- Conceptual Models of Agility -- Just Enough Structure at the Edge of Chaos: Agile Information System Development in Practice / Karlheinz Kautz, Sabine Zumpe -- A Preliminary Conceptual Model for Exploring Global Agile Teams / Jason H. Sharp, Sherry D. Ryan -- Scrum Implementation Using Kotter's Change Model / Sinead Hayes, Ita Richardson -- Experience Reports -- Agile Estimation with Monte Carlo Simulation / Juanjuan Zang -- The Pomodoro Technique for Sustainable Pace in Extreme Programming Teams / Federico Gobbo, Matteo Vaccari -- Adopting Iterative Development: The Perceived Business Value / Caryna Pinheiro, Frank Maurer, Jonathan Sillito -- Explicit Risk Management in Agile Processes / Christopher R. Nelson, Gil Taran, Lucia de Lascurain Hinojosa -- Posters -- APDT: An Agile Planning Tool for Digital Tabletops / Sebastian Weber, Yaser Ghanam, Xin Wang, Frank Maurer -- Investigating the Role of Trust in Agile Methods Using a Light Weight Systematic Literature Review / Eisha Hasnain, Tracy Hall -- Agile Practices in a Product Development Organization / Frank Keenan, Tony McCarron, Shay Doherty, Stuart McLean -- Building and Linking a Metaphor: Finding Value! / Frank Keenan, David Bustard, Namgyal Damdul, David Connolly -- The Story of Transition to Agile Software Development / Gadi Lifshitz, Ayelet Kroskin, Yael Dubinsky -- Predicting Software Fault Proneness Model Using Neural Network / Yogesh Singh, Arvinder Kaur, Ruchika Malhotra -- Multi-modal Functional Test Execution / Shelly Park, Frank Maurer -- Social Network Analysis of Communication in Open Source Projects / Guido Porruvecchio, Selene Uras, Roberta Quaresima -- Toward Empowering Extreme Programming from an Architectural Viewpoint / Amir Saffarian, Amir Azim Sharifloo, Fereidoun Shams -- A Metric-Based Approach to Assess Class Testability / Yogesh Singh, Anju Saha -- Inside View of an Extreme Process / Sara Shahzad, Zahid Hussain, Martin Lechner, Wolfgang Slany -- To Track QA Work or Not; That Is the Question / Juanjuan Zang -- Build Notifications in Agile Environments / Ruth Ablett, Frank Maurer, Ehud Sharlin, Jorg Denzinger, Craig Schock -- Supporting Distributed Pair Programming with the COLLECE Groupware System: An Empirical Study / Rafael Duque, Crescencio Bravo -- Workshops -- Experience on the Human Side of Agile / Angela Martin, James Noble, Robert Biddle -- Retrospective Exploration Workshop / David Hussman, Lasse Koskela -- Exposing the Devils within: Agile Taboos in a Large Organization / Lars Arne Skar, Jan-Erik Sandberg -- BIOHAZARD - Engineering the Change Virus / Patrick Kua -- Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches / Muhammad Ali Babar, Pekka Abrahamsson -- Exploring Agile Coaching / Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley -- The Agile Technique Hour / David Parsons -- AOSTA: Agile Open Source Tools Academy / Werner Wild, Barbara Weber, Hubert Baumeister -- Panels (Abstracts) -- There's No Such Thing as Best Practice / Moderator: Steve Freeman -- Culture and Agile: Challenges and Synergies / Steven Fraser, Pekka Abrahamsson, Robert Biddle, Jutta Eckstein, Philippe Kruchten, Dennis Mancl, Werner Wild -- Architecture and Agility Are Not Mutually Exclusive / Moderator: Lasse Koskela -- Author Index.

Contributor Bio:  Fitzgerald, Brian Brian Fitzgerald holds the Frederick A. Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Global Business and Technology at the University of Limerick, where he is also Vice President of Research.