AGILE 2006: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Research Papers

Introduction

• Frank Maurer, Grigori Melnik:
  Agile 2006 Research Papers. 3
  

Agile Value and Estimation

• Tamara Sulaiman, Brent Barton, Thomas Blackburn:
  AgileEVM - Earned Value Management in Scrum Projects. 7-16
  
• Anthony Cabri, Mike Griffiths:
  Earned Value and Agile Reporting. 17-22
  
• Nils Christian Haugen:
  An Empirical Study of Using Planning Poker for User Story Estimation. 23-34
  

Test-Based Specifications and Refactoring

• Grigori Melnik, Frank Maurer, Mike Chiasson:
  Executable Acceptance Tests for Communicating Business Requirements: Customer Perspective. 35-46
  
• Chih-Wei Ho, Michael J. Johnson, Laurie Williams, E. Michael Maximilien:
  On Agile Performance Requirements Specification and Testing. 47-52
  
• Maayan Goldstein, Yishai A. Feldman, Shmuel S. Tyszberowicz:
  Refactoring with Contracts. 53-64
  

Cognitive Aspects of Customer Communication

• Helen Sharp, Hugh Robinson, Judith Segal, Dominic Furniss:
  The Role of Story Cards and the Wall in XP teams: A Distributed Cognition Perspective. 65-75
  
• Mikko Korkala, Pekka Abrahamsson, Pekka Kyllönen:
  A Case Study on the Impact of Customer Communication on Defects in Agile Software Development. 76-88
  

Reflections on Agile Approaches

• Joseph Chao, Gulgunes Atli:
  Critical Personality Traits in Successful Pair Programming. 89-93
  
• Steve Adolph:
  What Lessons Can the Agile Community Learn from A Maverick Fighter Pilot? 94-99
  
• David Talby, Orit Hazzan, Yael Dubinsky, Arie Keren:
  Reflections on Reflection in Agile Software Development. 100-112
  

Agile Stories

• Jez Humble, Chris Read, Dan North:
  The Deployment Production Line. 113-118
  
• Yuri Khramov:
  The Cost of Code Quality. 119-125
  
• Deborah Hartmann, Robin Dymond:
  Appropriate Agile Measurement: Using Metrics and Diagnostics to Deliver Business Value. 126-134
  

Experience Reports

Introduction

• James Shore:
  Introduction: Experience Reports. 135
  

Depth of Experience

• Bob Schatz, Ibrahim Abdelshafi:
  The Agile Marathon. 139-146
  
• Steven W. Baker:
  Formalizing Agility, Part 2: How an Agile Organization Embraced the CMMI. 147-154
  
• Rod Coffin:
  A Tale of Two Projects. 155-164
  

Planning

• Troy Frever, Paul Ingalls:
  The Pairing Session as the Atomic Unit of Work. 165-169
  
• Jason Nocks:
  Multiple Simultaneous Projects with One eXtreme Programming Team. 170-174
  
• Monica Yap:
  Value Based Extreme Programming. 175-184
  

Large Companies

• Mark Striebeck:
  Ssh! We Are Adding a Process... 185-193
  
• Sean Hanly, Laura Waite, Linsley Meadows, Roger Leaton:
  Agile Coaching in British Telecom: Making Strawberry Jam. 194-202
  
• Jeff Honious, Jonathan Clark:
  Something to Believe In. 203-212
  

Change Agency

• Kelly Weyrauch:
  What Are We Arguing About? A Framework for Defining Agile in our Organization. 213-220
  
• Beatrice Düring:
  Trouble in Paradise: the Open Source Project PyPy, EU-Funding and Agile Practices. 221-231
  
• Emma Parnell-Klabo:
  Introducing Lean Principles with Agile Practices at a Fortune 500 Company. 232-242
  

Guerilla Agile

• Valerie Trapa, Santhpur Rao:
  T3 - Tool for Monitoring Agile Development. 243-248
  
• Mara Yale:
  Optimizing Major Release Frequency Using Agile Practices. 249-254
  
• Richard Lawrence, Blas Yslas:
  Three-Way Cultural Change Introducing Agile within Two Non-Agile Companies and a Non-Agile Methodology. 255-262
  

Developer Practices

• Mitch Lacey:
  Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing: Seeking Beginner's Mind. 263-269
  
• Antawan Holmes, Marc Kellogg:
  Automating Functional Tests Using Selenium. 270-275
  
• Micah Alles, David Crosby, Carl Erickson, Brian Harleton, Michael Marsiglia, Greg Pattison, Curt Stienstra:
  Presenter First: Organizing Complex GUI Applications for Test-Driven Development. 276-288
  

Whole Team

• Gerard Meszaros, Janice Aston:
  Adding Usability Testing to an Agile Project. 289-294
  
• Stacia Heimgartner, Melody Locke:
  A Tale of Two Writing Teams. 295-304
  
• Michael Puleio:
  How Not to Do Agile Testing. 305-314
  

Distributing/Scaling

• Israel Gat:
  How BMC is Scaling Agile Development. 315-320
  
• Ben Hogan:
  Lessons Learned from an eXtremely Distributed Project. 321-326
  
• Naresh Jain:
  Offshore Agile Maintenance. 327-336
  

Learning Agile

• Jonathan Rasmusson:
  Agile Project Initiation Techniques - The Inception Deck and Boot Camp. 337-341
  
• Daniel Poon:
  A Self Funding Agile Transformation. 342-350
  
• Nancy Van Schooenderwoert:
  Embedded Agile Project by the Numbers With Newbies. 351-366
  

Agile Value

• Dot Tudor, George A. Walter:
  Using an Agile Approach in a Large, Traditional Organization. 367-373
  
• Wade A. Lee, Gareth Powell:
  Extreme Selling in the Early Stage Space. 374-382
  

Educator's Symposium

• Joseph Chao:
  Educators' Symposium Overview. 383
  
• Joseph Bergin, Fred Grossman:
  Extreme Construction: Making Agile Accessible. 384-389
  
• Alan Gray, Andrew Jackson, Ioanna Stamouli, Shiu Lun Tsang:
  Forming Successful eXtreme Programming Teams. 390-399
  
• Carol A. Wellington, Thomas H. Briggs, C. Dudley Girard:
  The Impact of Agility on a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. 400-404
  
• Michael Wainer:
  Using Agile Management to Share Course Projects Among Multiple Classes. 405-410
  
• Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman, Jason Osborne, Neha Katira:
  Examining the Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers. 411-420
  
• Fred Grossman, Joe Bergin, Rinaldo Digiorgio:
  Teaching Agile - Agile Teaching: Creating a Holistic Learning Environment. 421-422
  
• Joseph Chao, Gary Pollice:
  Give It Your Best Shot: Favorite Lectures from Agile Teachers. 423