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Prof.Mike Cusumano gives a keynote speech
and a tutorial at XP2003!
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Welcome to the Fourth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering

Building on the success of XP2000, XP2001, and XP2002, the Fourth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering will be a forum to discuss theories, practices, experiences, and tools on XP and other agile software processes, like SCRUM, the Adaptive Software Process, Feature Driven Development and the Crystal series.

XP2003 will bring together people from industry and academia to share experiences and ideas and to provide an archival source for important papers on agile process-related topics.

The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer.

The conference will consist of technical presentations, panels, poster sessions, activity sessions, workshops, tutorials.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
The conference will stress practical applications and implications of XP and other agile processes (AP). Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

• Foundations and rationale of XP and AP

• Relation to reuse

• Relation to UML and the Unified Process

• Relation to the CMM and ISO 9001

• Organizational and management issues and

patterns

• Use of supportive software development

tools and environments

• Scalability issues

• Other issues on agile methodologies

• Case studies and experiments

• Education and training

• Unit and acceptance testing: practices and

experiences

• Methodology and process

• Introducing AP into an organization

• Merging of agile processes

• Empirical findings of XP and AP effectivenes

• Refactoring and continuous integrations

• XP and AMs practices

The proceedings of the conference are published by Springer in LNCS 2675

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Conference

Organized by:

CASE

Free University of Bolzano - Bozen

Agile Group

Università di Cagliari

LIPS

Università di Genova