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

May 26-30, 2009 Sardinia, Italy

http://www.xp2009.org/

XP 2009 is the leading conference on Agile Methods held annually in Europe. XP2009 is the tenth consecutive conference with outstanding future ahead. For this special conference, we invite researchers and practitioners to contribute their insights and results to the conference to help advance the state of the art of Agile Methods. The topics of interest in the conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Existing or new methodologies and approaches: Adaptive, Agile Modeling, Crystal, DSDM, eXtreme Programming, FDD, Lean, Scrum, Agile RUP, or other methodologies
• Qualitative or quantitative empirical results of agile approaches in industrial contexts
• Success and failures of agile techniques: the good, the bad, the ugly
• Foundations of agile methods
• Agile method adoption, adoption strategies and critical success factors
• Adapting agile approaches to company environments
• Agile development and open source
• Distributed or dispersed agile teams
• Enterprise level agile
• Agile product line engineering, agile methods and SPICE/CMM/ISO 900x
• Process improvement for agile teams
• Existing or new techniques or practices: pairing, war-rooms, test-first design, paper-based prototyping, executable acceptance testing, storytest driven development, behavior-driven development, exploratory testing, refactoring, applications of mock objects, and others
• Bridging the gap to other fields, e.g. requirements engineering, interaction design, cognitive science, management science
• Agile methods in a business context (costing, budgets, forming contracts etc) Business agility
• Tools for agile teams, tools for agile developers
• Research methods for studying agile approaches (ethnographic, social science approaches, economics, quantitative & qualitative research, case studies)
• Teaching agile methods
• Agile approaches for specific application classes (ERP, Embedded Systems, Scientific Software, Web-based systems, etc.)
• Metrics for agile teams
•  Social and cultural issues in agile teams

The XP2009 conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing.
There will be also a special issue published in Software Process: Improvement and Practice periodical from the best papers of XP2009 conference.