Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Evidence of successes and failures of agile practices
• War Stories of cancelled projects
• Characterization of agile practices
• Positions in defense of the 'waterfall approaches' or other so-called traditional approaches
• Empirical methods to investigate effectiveness of software practices; qualitative and quantitative research; difficulties.
• Data collection to support longitudinal studies or cross project studies
• Difficulties in certain segments of the software industry: safety-critical software, evolution of large legacy code, security, SOX, etc.
• Software architecture in an agile context, and the myth of the BUFD
• Education of practitioners
• Embedding agile practices in product development framework
• Agile practices and CMMI or other industry certifications
• Agile practices and system engineering