14^th International Conference on
Agile Software Development, June 3^rd - 7^th, Vienna

XP2013 Program

This is our conference schedule. This page provides the full overview. Please follow the links embedded in the session titles for more information.

Monday – Workshops and Tutorials

Time	Otto Wagner 1	Otto Wagner 2	Max Reinhardt 1	Max Reinhardt 2	Max Reinhardt 3	Arnold Schönberg	Karl Kraus
08:30	Tea/Coffee
09:00	Welcome
09:15	Story Maps in practice: enable early feedback to build what really matters Christian Hassa (Tutorial)	Leading Self-Organizing Teams Andrea Provaglio (Workshop)	Lean Startup in Practice Manuel Küblböck, Doreen Timm (Workshop)	Restructuring Code: From “Push” to “Pull” Nicole Rauch, Andreas Leidig (Workshop)	Implementing Continuous Delivery Patrick Kua, Christian Trabold (Tutorial)	PhD Symposium (Part 1) Organizer: Johanna Hunt	RefTest2013 – International Workshop on Refactoring & Testing Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Steve Counsell, Alessandro Murgia, Roberto Tonelli (Academic Workshop)
12:45	Lunch
13:45	Specification by Example Christian Hassa (Tutorial)	Seeding New Organizational Culture Olaf Lewitz, Steve Holyer, Ivana Gancheva (Workshop)	Lean Startup in Practice (continued)	Property-Based Test Driven Development Nat Pryce (Workshop)	Implementing Continuous Delivery (continued)	Research Dojo: Collaborative Approaches for our Agile Community Johanna Hunt, Xiaofeng Wang (Workshop)	RefTest2013 – International Workshop on Refactoring & (continued)
17:15	Break
	Welcome Reception

Tuesday – Conference Day

Time	Otto Wagner 1	Otto Wagner 2	Max Reinhardt 1	Max Reinhardt 2	Max Reinhardt 3	Arnold Schönberg	Karl Kraus
08:30	Tea/Coffee
09:00	Opening
09:15	Opening Keynote: Listen Up! David Anania
10:15	Tuesday Session Introductions
10:30	Break
11:00	Exec & Managers Effective planning and uncertainty management across the enterprise Hendrik Esser The Software Development Improvement Program: Agile Practices and Training at ABB Per Branger	Vendor Track Sessions	Teaching and Learning Barriers to Learning in Agile Software Development Projects Jeffry Babb, Rashina Hoda and Jacob Nørbjerg Early Start in Software Coaching Thomas Vikberg, Arto Vihavainen, Matti Luukkainen and Jaakko Kurhila Introducing Programmers to Pair Programming: A Controlled Experiment A. S. M. Sajeev and Subhajit Datta	Growing Coaches for the Future Mark Summers	Agile Corporate Governance aka Building a Lean Business You Can Evan Leybourn	Growing software from examples Seb Rose	The Extreme Hour Revival Erik Lundh
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Exec & Managers Extending agile into the rest of the organization Gregory Yon Agile Working Groups (AWGs) – A Sustainable Engine of Enterprise Agile Transformation Jorgen Hesselberg	Vendor Track Sessions	Development Teams Team Performance in Agile Development Teams: Findings from Focus Groups Torgeir Dingsøyr and Yngve Lindsjørn The Practice of Not Knowing for Sure: How Agile Teams manage Uncertainties Denniz Dönmez and Gudela Grote Key Challenges of improving agile teamwork Nils Brede Moe	Being Followed: How Individuals Help Teams Become Michael Hill	Agile Career Development from the trenches – lessons learned Ionel Condor	Testing with a stranger Markus Gärtner	Rapid Software Architecture Exploration Michael Keeling
15:00	Break
15:30	Exec & Managers Fishbowl Discussion: Agile organizations generating higher profit, innovation and growth	The camel and the needle eye – or the challenges of integrating agile approaches into a standard system development process Peter Faßbinder	We don’t think the way we think Manuel Kiessling	Panel Discussion The Impact of Agile on Technical Debt	The Scrum Principle – managing beyond Scrum Boris Gloger	Scenario based testing- multiple browsers, devices, environments Jodok Batlogg	Multiple projects, different goals, same codebase! Carlos Lopes
16:30	Break
16:45	Open Space Opening
18:30	Open Space Night

Wednesday – Conference Day

Time	Otto Wagner 1	Otto Wagner 2	Max Reinhardt 1	Max Reinhardt 2	Max Reinhardt 3	Arnold Schönberg	Karl Kraus
08:30	Tea/Coffee
09:00	Morning News
09:15	Wednesday Session Introductions
09:30	Open Space	Open Space	Agile Practices Effects of Negative Testing on TDD: An Industrial Experiment Adnan Causevic, Rakesh Shukla, Sasikumar Punnekkat and Daniel Sundmark Investigating the Impact of Experience and Solo/Pair Programming on Coding Efficiency: Results and Experiences from Coding Contests Dietmar Winkler, Martin Kitzler, Christoph Steindl and Stefan Biffl	BE BRAVE Gitte Klitgaard	Serious Games for change and engagement Cesario Ramos	Distributed Product Owner Team for an agile medical development Andrea Heck	How to Narrow Down What to Test Zsolt Fabok
10:30	Break
11:00	Open Space	Open Space	Experiences and Lessons Learned Visualizing and Managing Technical Debt in Agile Development: an Experience Report Paulo Sérgio Medeiros Dos Santos, Amanda Varella, Cristine Ribeiro Dantas and Daniel Beltrão Borges How are Agile Methods and Practices Deployed in Video Game Development? A Survey into Finnish Game Studios Jussi Koutonen and Mauri Leppänen Inter-Organizational Co-Development with Scrum: Experiences and Lessons Learned from a Distributed Corporate Development Environment Raoul Vallon, Stefan Strobl, Mario Bernhart and Thomas Grechenig	Designing the Best Process for your Team Michael Keeling	Our Scrum is Great! (And Our XP Practice Ain’t Bad.) Now what? Steve Holyer & Diana Larsen	How Agile Localization can be a competitive business advantage Vasco Duarte	Brutal Refactoring Game Adrian Bolboaca
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Keynote: Make Impacts, Not Software Gojko Adzic
14:30	Break
14:50	Open Space	Open Space	Self-Experimentation for Continuous Improvement Tom Perry	Panel Discussion Collaboration Tools for Agile: Learning and Practice	Agile Contracts – Can We Make Them Possible? Andrea Provaglio	The Product Canvas: Personas, Interactions, Stories, and Design Roman Pichler	Dealing with legacy code – Reversed Tests Pyramid Wiktor Żołnowski
15:50	Break
16:00	Open Space				The Art and the Real Option of Doing Nothing and Trusting People, Steve Holyer and Olaf Lewitz	Pecha Kucha – Your Presentation Skills Erik Lundh	Multi-project management with dispersed agile teams Maximilian Hantsch-Köller
17:30	tbd
ca 20:00	Conference Dinner

Thursday – Conference Day

Time	Otto Wagner 1	Otto Wagner 2	Max Reinhardt 1	Max Reinhardt 2	Max Reinhardt 3	Arnold Schönberg	Karl Kraus
08:30	Tea/Coffee
09:00	Morning News
09:15	Keynote
10:15	Thursday Session Introductions
10:30	Break
11:00	Open Space	Open Space	Large Scale Projects A Metrics Model to Measure the Impact of an Agile Transformation in Large Software Development Organizations Jeanette Heidenberg, Max Weijola, Kirsi Mikkonen and Ivan Porres Perspectives on Productivity and Delays in Large-Scale Agile Projects Deepika Badampudi, Samuel A. Fricker and Ana M. Moreno Continuous Release Planning in a Large-Scale Scrum Development Organization at Ericsson Ville T. Heikkilä, Maria Paasivaara, Casper Lassenius and Christian Engblom	1000 Words – Illustrating Project Challenges with Visuals, Tarang Baxi	Retrospectives as a tool for change management Jutta Eckstein and Diana Larsen	Do you remember how to play? Jakob Wolman	Coding Dojo Challenge: Refactoring Emily Bache
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Open Space	Open Space	Architecture and Design Micro Patterns in Agile Software Giulio Concas, Giuseppe Destefanis, Michele Marchesi, Marco Ortu and Roberto Tonelli Feature Usage Diagram for Feature Reduction Sarunas Marciuska, Cigdem Gencel, Xiaofeng Wang and Pekka Abrahamsson The Effect of Complexity and Value on Architecture Planning in Agile Software Development Michael Waterman, James Noble and George Allan	Panel Discussion Where is Extreme Programming (XP) Today?	StarWars! Jedi vs. Sith – hands on Agile vs. Waterfall Thorsten Kalnin	Product Portfolio Game Antti Kirjavainen	Thinking about TDD: A Russian Doll, Full of Clockworks Erik Lundh
15:00	Break
15:20	Closing Open Space
15:50	Break – Change Room Setup
16:00	Closing Keynote: Agile Fluency: What We’ve Learned About How We Learn, James Shore
17:00	End of Day

Friday – Workshops and Tutorials

Time	Otto Wagner 1	Otto Wagner 2	Max Reinhardt 1	Max Reinhardt 2	Max Reinhardt 3	Arnold Schönberg	Karl Kraus
08:30	Tea/Coffee
09:00	Solution Focused Coaching and Retrospectives Ralph Miarka, Veronika Kotrba (Tutorial)	Complex Projects aren’t plannable but controllable Jutta Eckstein (Workshop)	Fast Can be Safe: Coaching Agile Medical Software Development Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, Brian Shoemaker (Tutorial)	Designing good test cases Emily Bache (Workshop)	The Taming of the Script Emmanuel Gaillot and François de Metz (Tutorial)	PhD Symposium (Part 2) Organizer: Johanna Hunt	Integrating Agile and User-Centered Design Dina Salah (Academic Workshop)
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Agile Kaizen Ángel Medinilla (Tutorial)	Take Your Agile Adoption to the Next Level Steve Holyer, Diana Larsen (Workshop)	Fast Can be Safe: Coaching Agile Medical Software Development (continued)	Driving Development With Tests Emily Bache (Workshop)	The Taming of the Script (continued)	Research Challenges in Large Scale Agile Development Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe (Academic Workshop)	AgileES2013 Xiaocheng Ge, Nour Ali, Xiaofeng Wang (Academic Workshop)
17:00	End

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