Call for Papers - PhD Symposium on eXtreme Programming and Agile

PhD Symposium
on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes
in Software Engineering

June 18-23, 2005 Sheffield University, UK

joint with XP 2005

http://www.xp2005.org/phdsymposium

Chair: Sandro Pinna

What is the PhD Symposium?
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The XP2005 Ph.D. Symposium is intended to bring together doctoral
students (at any stage in their thesis) doing research in the area of
XP or other agile methodologies and give them the opportunity to
present and to discuss their research in a constructive and
international atmosphere.

The Ph.D. Symposium will be accompanied by mentors which will actively
participate and contribute to the discussions. The mentors are senior
researchers and practitioners coming from university and industry,
e.g. current or former members of the XP200x series program committee.

The goal is to provide mutual feedback and guidance from mentors as
well as from other symposium participants.

The XP2005 PhD Symposium will be rounded off by a discussion of
general questions related to Ph.D. research. They include, but are not
limited to, the following aspects:

* problem formulation,
* analysis and evaluation of the state of the Ph.D. thesis,
* research methodology, including
* underlying principles of the approach,
* utility of the approach,
* as well as validation of the results.
* critical evaluation of one's own work, including
* identification of the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis,
* validation techniques (such as prototyping, field experiment, or
argumentation),
* definition of the innovative contribution of a thesis to the
existing state of the art.

Why submit a paper to the XP2005 PhD Symposium?
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Have you ever written a paper about your Ph.D. thesis as such
convincing people that what you are doing makes sense and is better
than existing solutions? Have you ever explained to someone exactly
what your solution is and why you propose it?

In writing a paper for the PhD Symposium, you have to think, write and
convince people about all these points. In return, you will receive
helpful criticism, guidance and support from mentors and others going
through the same experience, and advice about possible future
direction and focus.

The paper submitted to the PhD Symposium should address specifically
your thesis, that is the thesis, the whole thesis and nothing but the
thesis. You should answer questions like:

* What is the problem being addressed in your thesis?
* What is the solution you are proposing?
* How does it relate to existing work?
* What is the state of your thesis?
* What are your future plans?

Topics
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The PhD-Symposium will stress practical applications and implications
of XP and other agile methodologies (AM). Topics include, but are not
limited to:

* Foundations and rationale of XP and AM
* Case studies, experiments and practioner's reports
* XP, AM and "Lean Management"
* Organizational Change
* Other management and organizational issues
* Scalability issues
* Education and training
* Introducing XP and AM into an organization
* New insights into XP practices and their interrelations
* Refactoring and continuous integration
* XP, AM and process/product certifications (CMM, ISO 9001, ...)
* Unit and acceptance testing: practices and experiences
* Use of SW development tools and environments
* Agile development of Open Source software
* Merging of agile processes
* Customer interaction

Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.

Submissions
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Submissions must be in English using the Springer LNCS style. All
submissions should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF
format to phdsymposium_chair@xp2005.org.

Important dates
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Deadline for submission: March 1, 2005.

PhD Symposium Acceptance notification: March 20, 2005

All final manuscripts: April 3, 2005

For any additional information please contact
Sandro Pinna at: phdsymposium_chair@xp2005.org

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Dr. Hubert Baumeister, Institut für Informatik, Universität München
Program Chair XP2005 (www.xp2005.org)
mailto:baumeist@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
http://www.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~baumeist
phone (x49-89)2180-9375  * fax -9175