Frank Maurer - Böcker

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations, LSO 2002, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in August 2002, in conjunction with XP/Agile Universe 2002.The book is devoted to technical, organizational, and social solutions to problems of learning from past experiences and codifying the resulting best practices so they can be systematically used in subsequent software development efforts. The nine revised full papers presented with an introductory overview were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. They are organized in topical sections on Agile learning, distributed learning, process-centered approaches, and models for organizational learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the XP / Agile Universe 2003 Conference held in New Orleans, LA, USA in August 2003.The 17 revised full papers presented together with abstracts or papers from an educator symposium and workshop summaries were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on becoming agile, agile methods and processes, agile testing, and tool support for agile teams.

The field of software engineering is characterized by speed and turbulence in many regards. While new ideas are proposed almost on a yearly basis, very few of them live for a decade or a longer. Lightweight software development methods were a new idea in the latter part of the 1990s. Now, ten years later, they are better known as agile software development methods, and an active community driven by practitioners has formed around the new way of thinking. Agile software development is currently being embraced by the research community as well. As a sign of increased research activity, most research-oriented conferences have an agile software development track included in the conference program. The XP conference series established in 2000 was the first conference dedicated to agile processes in software engineering. The idea of the conference is to offer a unique setting for advancing the state of the art in research and practice of agile processes. This year’s conference was the tenth consecutive edition of this international event. Due to the diverse nature of different activities during the conference, XP is claimed to be more of an experience rather then a regular conference. It offers several different ways to interact and strives to create a truly collaborative environment where new ideas and exciting findings can be presented and shared. This is clearly visible from this year’s program as well.