[ecoop-info] Call for Participation: Workshop on Agile Practices at ICSE 2008 "Shoot out at Process Corral"

[Frances Paulisch]

Call for Participation

Workshop on Scrutinizing Agile Practices -- or "Shoot out at Process Corral"

http://www.lero.ie/APSO08

Co-located with the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2008) - http://icse08.upb.de/ Leipzig, Germany, 10 - 18 May 2008


Workshop Theme and Goals
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Agile methods and practices are gaining momentum in industry, and also
slowly making their way in academia. They bring fresh air, and funny new
jargon. Some practitioners consider them as the ultimate advance in software
engineering. But what do we really know about this? Where is the evidence?
Do they scale? Do they solve real issues or just substitute new issues to
old ones? Are the benefits tangible, or just acts of faith? Aren't we all
agile? Are they no agile failures? Isn't the "waterfall process" -- that
pi=F1ata of agilistas -- the real holy grail of software engineering, and
agile processes only a 'Band-Aid' to compensate for our deficiencies?

This workshop aims at challenging the ready-made ideas, the fluff, the hype,
putting things into context, and examining these with fresh and open eyes.

Workshop goals:

We would like to gather in the same room the converts, the enthusiasts, the
researchers, the skeptics, the proponents of more "traditional" approaches,
those coming from more delicate areas (safety-critical systems, large legacy
code), and have an honest debate, behind the hype and the funny lingo. The
ultimate objective of the workshop is to identify what is established
knowledge, what is dubious knowledge, where research could potentially help
validate or invalidate some of the agile practices, and some strategies to
get there. Converts wanting to play the role of the devil's advocate are
most welcome. One outcome of the workshop could be a research agenda on
agile practices in software engineering.


Workshop Presentations
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* Towards a Framework for Understanding the Relationships Between
   Classical Software Engineering and Agile Methodologies by Jiang and
Eberlein
* Exploring Agile by David Gelperin
* In Pursuit of Multi-Modal Executable Acceptance Testing Tool by Shelly
Park
* Video Analysis of Pair Programming by Andreas Hoefer
* RDP Technique: a Practice to Customize XP by Mehdi Mirakhorli
* Adopting an Agile Methodology: Why it Didn't Work by Iva Krasteva
* Using Measurements to Support Real-Option Thinking in Agile Software
    Development by Zornitza Racheva
* Agile Process Myths by Elke Hochmueller


Workshop Dinner (19:00)
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The workshop dinner will be at the Nikolaischule restaurant. The dinner is
included in the workshop registration fee.


Workshop organizers
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* Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,
pbk at ece.ubc.ca
* Steve Adolph, WSA Consulting, Vancouver, steve at wsaconsulting.com
* Muhammad Ali Babar, LERO, Ireland

Program Committee
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* Pekka Abrahamsson, VTT, Finland
* Muhammad Ali Babar, LERO, Ireland
* Scott Ambler, IBM, Canada
* Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
* Jim Coplien, Denmark
* Torgeir Dingsoyr, SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
* Hakan Erdogmus, NRC, Canada
* Li Jiang, University of Adelaide, Australia
* Jonathan Kohl, Calgary
* Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
* Grigori Melnik, Microsoft, Redmond, USA
* Eugene Nizker, Evident Point, Canada
* James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
* Linda Rising, Phoenix, AZ
* Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University, USA

Please feel free to pass this information on to other interested colleagues.





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