Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 8th International Conference, XP 2007, Como, Italy, June 18-22, 2007, Proceedings (Paperback)

Managing Agile Processes.- Comparing Decision Making in Agile and Non-agile Software Organizations.- Up-Front Interaction Design in Agile Development.- British Telecom Experience Report: Agile Intervention - BT's Joining the Dots Events for Organizational Change.- Agile Software Development Meets Corporate Deployment Procedures: Stretching the Agile Envelope.- Extending Agile Methodologies.- Supporting Agile Reuse Through Extreme Harvesting.- Using Horizontal Displays for Distributed and Collocated Agile Planning.- Applying Agile to Large Projects: New Agile Software Development Practices for Large Projects.- Teaching and Introducing Agile Methodologies.- Job Satisfaction and Motivation in a Large Agile Team.- Motivation and Cohesion in Agile Teams.- How to Build Support for Distributed Pair Programming.- Methods and Tools.- A Metamodel for Modeling and Measuring Scrum Development Process.- Tracking the Evolution of Object-Oriented Quality Metrics on Agile Projects.- FitClipse: A Fit-Based Eclipse Plug-In for Executable Acceptance Test Driven Development.- EzUnit: A Framework for Associating Failed Unit Tests with Potential Programming Errors.- Empirical Studies.- Does XP Deliver Quality and Maintainable Code?.- Inspecting Automated Test Code: A Preliminary Study.- A Non-invasive Method for the Conformance Assessment of Pair Programming Practices Based on Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models.- Predicting Software Defect Density: A Case Study on Automated Static Code Analysis.- Empirical Evidence Principle and Joint Engagement Practice to Introduce XP.- Methodology Issue.- Power of Recognition: A Conceptual Framework for Agile Capstone Project in Academic Environment.- Agile Commitments: Enhancing Business Risk Management in Agile Development Projects.- Usability in Agile Software Development: Extending the Interaction Design Process with Personas Approach.- Defining an Integrated Agile Governance for Large Agile Software Development Environments.- Ph.D. Symposium.- Enhancing Creativity in Agile Software Teams.- Investigating Adoption of Agile Software Development Methodologies in Organisations.- Agile Software Assurance.- Posters.- User Stories and Acceptance Tests as Negotiation Tools in Offshore Software Development.- A Case Study of the Implementation of Agile Methods in a Bioinformatics Project.- Adapting Test-Driven Development for Innovative Software Development Project.- Learning Agile Methods in Practice: Advanced Educational Aspects of the Varese XP-UG Experience.- Experience Reports.- Overcoming Brooks' Law.- Project Bid on Iteration Basis.- Making the Whole Product Agile - A Product Owners Perspective.- Financial Organization Transformation Strategy.- An Agile Approach to Requirement Specification.- The Application of User Stories for Strategic Planning.- Introducing Agile Methods into a Project Organisation.- Agile Development Meets Strategic Design in the Enterprise.- An Agile Approach for Integration of an Open Source Health Information System.- Agile Practices in a Large Organization: The Experience of Poste Italiane.- Multi-tasking Agile Projects: The Focal Point.- Extreme Programming Security Practices.- Multi-tasking Agile Projects: The Pressure Tank.- The Creation of a Distributed Agile Team.- Distributed Scrum in Research Project Management.- Multiple Perspectives on Executable Acceptance Test-Driven Development.- Test Driving the Wrong Car.- Epistemological Justification of Test Driven Development in Agile Processes.- Research Ideas.- How Does Readiness for Agile Development Relate to Team Climate and Individual Personality Attributes?.- Communication Flow in Open Source Projects: An Analysis of Developers' Mailing Lists.- Panels.- Community Reflections.- To Certify or Not to Certify.- Learning More About "Software Best Practices".