Table of Contents

Agile Adoption.- An Agile Implementation and Expansive Learning: Identifying Contradictions and their Resolution using an Activity Theory Perspective.- Onboarding: How Newcomers Integrate into an Agile Project Team.- Agile Practices.- Combining User-Centered Design and Lean Startup with Agile Software Development: A Case Study of Two Agile Teams.- Agile software development practices and success in outsourced projects: The moderating role of requirements risk.- On the Use of Design Thinking: A Survey of the Brazilian Agile Software Development Community.- Characterising the Quality of Behaviour-Driven Development Specifications.- “I don’t understand!”: Toward a Model to Evaluate the Role of User Story Quality.- Large-Scale Agile.- Large-Scale Agile Transformation: A case study of transforming business, development and operations.- Improving Risk Management in a Scaled Agile Environment.- The Business of Agile.- “When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do”: Cultural Barriers to Being Agile in Distributed Teams.- A Quantitative Exploration of the 9-Factor Theory: Distribution of Leadership Roles between Scrum Master and Agile Team.- Group dynamics challenges for agile leaders: The importance of team design.- “This is just a prototype”: How Ethics Are Ignored in Software Startup-like Environments.- Hypotheses Elicitation in Early-Stage Software Startups Based on Cognitive Mapping.- Agile and Testing.- Results from a Replicated Experiment on the Affective Reactions of Novice Developers when Applying Test-Driven Development.- Α Survey on System Testing Methodologies.