Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops

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XP 2019 Workshops Montréal, QC, Canada, May 21-25, 2019 Proceedings

A Springer Open

Preface

This volume contains the research workshops and doctoral symposium, as well as panel summaries presented at XP 2019, the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, held during May 21-25, 2019, at the Ecole de technologie supérieure in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. Whether you were new to agile or a seasoned agile practitioner, XP 2019 provided an informal environment to network, share, and discover trends in agile for the next 20 years.

Research papers and talks submissions were invited for the three XP 2019 research workshops, namely, Agile Transformation, Autonomous Teams, and Large Scale Agile. The workshops attracted a variety of agile software development topics related to the respective workshops. These included papers and presentations based on empirical studies and those conducted in industrial settings relevant to both researchers and practitioners. Submissions in various stages of progress were encouraged to generate discussions at the workshops. The workshops were structured to include a combination of talks, including keynotes by researchers leading the field in the respective areas, a variety of research talks by new, emerging, and established researchers, and round-table discussion style sessions. Research agendas for the communities represented by the workshops were discussed, refined, and reported in the respective workshop summaries.

The research workshops and doctoral symposium provide a highly relevant, friendly, and interactive platform to share and discuss emerging and late breaking research findings. They represent smaller, close communities of passionate emerging and established researchers and a psychologically safe environment to provide and receive feedback.

The success of the XP 2019 research workshops and doctoral symposium was possible due to the contributions of the organizers, Program Committee members, authors, presenters, and general attendees. Last, but not least, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the XP conference Steering Committee and the Agile Alliance for their ongoing support.

Panels at XP 20NN have been consistently among the best attended and well-received conference sessions following the conference plenary keynotes. This year’s topics included: Security and Privacy; The Impact of the Agile Manifesto on Culture, Education, and Software Practices; Business Agility — Agile’s Next Frontier; and “Agile — The Next 20 Years:” In the past we have published panel abstracts with panellist bios and position statements prior to the conference — however these abstracts did not reflect what was discussed at the conference.

For XP 2019, we took a different approach. We prepared extended summaries of the panel discussions, which captured the panellists’ initial reflections on the panel topic, the principal questions from the floor, and panellist discussion. These summary articles vi Preface were forwarded to the panellists for review, and the reviewed summaries have been included in these post-conference proceedings. We hope that you find this content useful and relevant to both software research and industrial practice.

Special thanks go to Dennis Mancl for his diligence in capturing and editing the panel conversations, the panellists for their participation and content review, and to the XP 2019 panel audiences for their questions and comments.

May 2019 Rashina Hoda Steven Fraser

Organization

Conference Chair

Francois Coallier Ecole de technologie supérieure, Canada

Research Workshops Chair

Rashina Hoda The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Agile Transformation Workshop Co-organizers

Leonor Barroca The Open University, UK Torgeir Dingsoyr SINTEF, Norway Marius Mikalsen SINTEF, Norway

Autonomous Teams Workshop Co-organizers

Nils Brede Moe SINTEF, Norway Viktoria Stray University of Oslo, SINTEF, Norway

Large Scale Agile Workshop Organizer Julian Bass University of Salford, UK Educator Symposium Co-chairs

Panels Chair Steven Fraser Innoxec Innovation, USA

Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs

Casper Lassenius Aalto University, Finland John Noll University of East London, UK

Publication Chair

Philippe Kruchten The University of British Columbia, Canada viii Organization

Agile Transformation Workshop Program Committee

Finn Olav Bjørnson

Peggy Gregory Tomas Gustavsson Parastoo Mohaghegi Marius Mikalsen Teemu Karvonen Casper Lassenius

Helen Sharp Katie Taylor

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

University of Central Lancashire, UK Karlstad University, Sweden

Norwegian Welfare Administration, Norway SINTEF Digital, Norway

Alto University, Finland

Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Open University, UK

Agile Business Consortium, UK

Autonomous Teams Workshop Program Committee

Antonio Martini Bjørnar Tessem

Dag Sjøberg

Darja Šmite

Gunnar Bergersen Jutta Eckstein

Maria Paasivaara Parastoo Mohagheghi

Marius Mikalsen Rini Van Solingen Thomas Gustavsson

Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

IT Communication, Germany

IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, Norway

SINTEF, Norway

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Karlstads Business School, Sweden

Large-Scale Agile Workshop Program Committee

Steve Adolph

Finn Olav Bjornson Torgeir Dingsøyr Jutta Eckstein Peggy Gregory Tomas Gustavsson Andy Haxby Aymeric Hemon Eric Knauss

Maarit Laanti

Carl Marnewick Nils Brede Moe Helena Holmstrom Olsson Maria Paasivaara Alexander Poth cPrime, Canada

NTNU, Norway

SINTEF, Norway

IT Communication, Germany UCLAN, UK

Karlstad University, Sweden Competa, The Netherlands Université de Nantes, France Gothenburg University, Sweden Nitor Delta, Finland

University of Johannesburg, South Africa SINTEF, Norway

Malmö University, Sweden Aalto University, Finland Volkswagen, Germany

Ken Power Klaas-Jan Stol

Steering Committee

Juan Garbajosa (Chair) Ademar Aguiar Hubert Baumeister Philip Brock François Coallier Jutta Eckstein Steven Fraser Casper Lassenius Erik Lundh Michele Marchesi Maria Paasivaara Seb Rose

Viktoria Stray Nils Wloka

Organization

Cisco, Ireland Lero, Ireland

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Universidade do Porto, Portugal Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Agile Alliance, USA

Ecole de technologie supérieure, Canada Independent, Germany

Innoxec, USA

Aalto University, Finland IngenjorsGladje, Sweden

Aalto University, Finland

Cucumber Limited, UK

University of Oslo, SINTEF, Norway Codecentric, Germany

Contents

First International Workshop on Agile Transformation

Agile Transformation: A Summary and Research Agenda from the First Intemational WorksShof 60.024 422420444646 808 BHO K ORES SET ES ESS Leonor Barroca, Torgeir Dingsoyr, and Marius Mikalsen

Second International Workshop on Autonomous Teams