UC Institute for Software Research
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Computer
Science Department, North Carolina State University
Industrial Case Studies of Extreme Programming Teams
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March
17, 2006
Friday
Refreshments and
Networking: 1:30 - 2:00
Presentation: 2:00 - 3:30
Faculty Host:
André van der Hoek
RSVP: Email RSVP required to Nancy Myers at nmyers@ics.uci.edu
by Monday, March 13.
Location: UCI McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium (building #311)
Cost: No cost to attend.
Directions and parking information are available.
Abstract: With the recent emergence of agile software development
technologies, many organizations, small and large, have adopted Extreme
Programming (XP) or a subset of its practices. This talk begins by providing
a brief comparative introduction between the first version of XP, introduced
in 2000, and the more recent version, introduced in 2005. I will then
discuss the empirical evaluation of the XP development process in terms
of industrial case studies performed at IBM, Sabre and Tekelec. These
case studies involve measurement of various product and process measures to compare
the XP process with prior processes and a qualitative assessment of the obstacles
that were encountered by the teams. We have seen variations in the practices
used by the teams, but all teams have realized a improvement in the quality of
their software products.
About the Speaker: Dr. Laurie Williams is an Assistant
Professor at North Carolina State University where she leads the Software
Engineering Research group. She received her undergraduate degree
in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. She also received
an MBA from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Utah. Prior to returning to academia to obtain her
Ph.D., she worked for IBM for nine years. Dr. Williams research
interests include agile software development, testing, reliability, security,
and software process.