The topics of interest in the conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• XP, Scrum, Crystal, Lean Software Development and other methods within the agile family
• Foundations and conceptual studies of agile methods 
• Agile method adoption, adoption strategies and critical success factors
• Agile method tailoring
• Agile development in large scale environments
• Agile development and open source
• Agile in offshore and distributed development
• Agile development of embedded software
• Agile and software product lines
• Implications of agile on industry quality standards (e.g. SPICE, CMMI) 
• Agile practices e.g. pair programming, test-first design, continuous integration, refactoring, etc. 
• Metrics, automated metrics and analysis
• Financial aspects of agile development (costing, budgets, forming contracts etc) 
• Innovation and agile methods
• Agile software development tools 
• Business agility 
• Combining or streamlining business processes and agile development 
• Social and cultural issues in agile teams
• Agile method education and training

The XP2008 conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Springer LNBIP). We are also discussing a special issue of a leading international journal on the topic, to which successful conference papers could be submitted.

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