Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming [electronic resource] : 8th International Conference, XP 2007, Como, Italy, June 18-22, 2007, Proceedings /

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 inAgile 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 andIndividual 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”.