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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Computer Supported Agile Development
How CSCW technology can support interaction
in an agile development
Part of XP 2003
May 25-29, 2003, Genova, Italy
http://www.xp2003.org/workshop/schuemmer.html
SUMMARY
The workshop on computer supported agile development
aims to bring together expertise from practitioners, who
applied agile development processes, and members of the CSCW
research community. The goal of the workshop is to clarify
technical requirements and limitations in computer support for
distributed and co-located development teams. The focus is on
technologies that support the team process, namely improve
communication and collaboration.
DESCRIPTION
The workshop will continue research work that has been seeded in
previous XP conferences and the CSCW research community. Previous
activities investigating computer support for distributed agile
development include research contributions at XP-Conferences and
general investigations of team processes and their support, which
is the goal of the CSCW community (reaching back to very
earlyworks, such as Doug Engelbarts presentation of NLS in 1968
[Engelbart and English, 1968]). Notable contributions at XP
conferences were:
- the technology presentations of Team-Streams [Rivieres et al.,
2001] and TUKAN[Schummer and Schummer, 2001] at XP2000,
- experience reports on the effect of distributionfor agile
processes at XP2001 [Kircher et al., 2001], [Butler et al., 2001]
and other conferences like OOPSLA [Baheti et al., 2002a], [Baheti
et al., 2002b],
- the workshop on distributed pair programming at XP Agile Universe
2002 [Stotts and Williams, 2002], the workshop on Dispersed
Extreme Programming at OOPSLA 2002 [Jain et al., 2002],
- and the workshop on distributed agile development at XP2002
[Cameron Wills and Kircher, 2002], where several patterns for
distributed extreme Programming were identified [Cameron Wills
2002]. Most of these patterns focussed on the team process. Where
technology was covered, it focussed on widely available
(shrink-wrapped) tools such as Microsoft NetMeeting.
Compared to other issues, tool support played only a minor role in
previous XP conferences. One should learn from the CSCW community,
how team processes, human computer interaction and the development
of computer technology can be brought together and form the basis
for investigating group work from different points of view, such
as sociology, psychology, computer science, or ethnography. The
results of such investigations show that all participants can
learn from other disciplines and enhance the technology support
for groups. The interdisciplinary nature of CSCW research also
helped to see the limitations of computer support for social
interaction. The goal of the workshop is to bring together these
different views and discuss among others the following topics of
interest:
- the relationship between distributed agile development and CSCW
and how each research area can benefit from the experiences and
practices of the other,
- experiences and/or requirements for applying groupware technology
in distributed agile development,
- open source communities (like SourceForge) and the required
technology support,
- virtual environments for agile processes (as well as the
requirements for such an environment),
- the role of group awareness, and
- application of CSCW technology for co-located development teams.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
There are two ways to participate: If you decide to participate as
a writing participant, you are invited to submit a position paper
of no more than 2000 words that addresses one or more of the
topics listed above. Please use the style guidelines at
http://www.xp2003.org/docs/XP2003.pdf
to prepare your submission
(note that templates for Word and LATEX are available at
http://www.cs.uvic.ca/icse2001/format.html).
The position papers
will be reviewed. Acceptance for an overbooked workshop (more than
12 participants) will depend on the quality of the position paper.
The position papers will be made available electronically before
the workshop and will set the focus of the workshop's
discussions.
If you prefer to participate as a presenting participant, you are
invited to submit an abstract of your presentation (about 200
words). Note that writing participants will be preferred, if the
workshop gets overbooked. Presenting participants will get a
shorter (but sufficient) time frame to present their ideas.
All participants should include a short biographic note and
elaborate on what they expect from the workshop.
Please send your submissions electronically (as PDF or DOC) to
till.schuemmer-PdBPhxpS/JMDwj1Imt9BneG/Ez6ZCGd0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IMPORTANT DATES
| Submission Deadline: | April 30, 2003 |
| Acceptance Notification: | May 05, 2003 |
| Final version due: | May 10, 2003 |
| Workshop: | May 25, 2003 |
In case of open questions, please feel free to contact one of the
organizers.
ORGANIZERS
Till Schuemmer (FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany)
till.schuemmer-PdBPhxpS/JMDwj1Imt9BnQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Alan Cameron Wills (Fastnloose Ltd, United Kingdom)
alan-NEgZ7VQ+P5sj5TC/SZClsA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Michael Kircher (Siemens AG, Germany)
Michael.Kircher-kv7WeFo6aLtBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Carl Gutwin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
gutwin-OMi918QVpUgsA/PxXw9srA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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