The 8th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming will be held in Como at the Palace Hotel conference centre, on June 18-22, 2007.

The International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP2007, is the leading world event on the topics of agility in software and system development. It is now at its eighth edition.

During these years, the agile approach has become mainstream in the software industry. It is able to produce business value early in the project lifetime and to successfully deal with changing requirements. It focuses on the delivery of running, tested versions of the system at a constant pace, featuring a continuous interaction with customers, and paying extreme attention to the human component of software development. A rapidly growing scientific and practical evidence show many quality gains including increased productivity, less defects and increased customer satisfaction.

At XP2007 the leading scientists and software engineers from all over the world that will analyze, debate and discuss the practices of XP and of the other Agile Methods in an informal event via a sequence of formal presentations, panels, workshops, disruptive activities, and tutorials.

Piergiorgio Grossi, Operating Manager, Ferrari Racing Team will give the opening keynote at XP2007, speaking on "The GranPrix starts at 2 o'clock: a race to race Software Development eXPerience."

Kent Beck, the founder of XP and the most prominent scientist and technologist of Agile Methods in the world, will give the closing keynote on "Ease at Work."

The morning keynote will be given by Olivier Lafontan, Managing Director, Agile Enablement Services, Exoftware, speaking on "Concept to Cash&Agile, and beyond."

The XP2007 conference proceedings are published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer LNCS). The book is now available online. You can find information about it at http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-540-73100-9 or access the online version at http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-73100-9/

XP2007 is organized by research units of MAPS project - Agile Methodologies for Software Production, with the help of the Research Group on Software Process of the Italian Association of Automatic Computation (AICA)