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Building on the success of XP2000 and XP2001, the Third International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering will be a forum to discuss theories, practices, experiences, and tools on XP and other agile software processes, like SCRUM, the Adaptive Software Process, Feature Driven Development and the Crystal series.

XP2002 will bring together people from industry and academia to share experiences and ideas and to provide an archival source for important papers on agile process-related topics.

The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer.

The conference will consist of technical presentations, panels, poster sessions, activity sessions, workshops, tutorials.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
The conference will stress practical applications and implications of XP and other agile processes (AP). Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

• Foundations and rationale of XP and AP
• Case studies and experiments
• Methodology and process
• Organizational and management issues and patterns
• Scalability issues
• Education and training
• Introducing AP into an organization
• Relation to reuse
• Relation to UML and the Unified Process
• Relation to the CMM and ISO 9001
• Empirical findings of XP and AP effectiveness
• XP Practices: user stories, on-site customer, planning game, short releases, metaphor, simple design, refactoring, pair programming, continuous integration, collective code ownership, no overtime, coding standards
• Unit and acceptance testing: practices and experiences
• Use of supportive software development tools and environments
• Refactoring and continuous integration
• Merging of agile processes
• Other issues on agile methodologies