1. Bolzano-Bozen, 17 th October 2002 NAME Network for Agile Methodologies Experience – Network of Exellence Center for Applied Software Engineering Free University of Bolzano / Bozen Giancarlo.Succi@unibz.it

2. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Funding Agency European Union - Fifth Framework Program – Information Society’s Technology

3. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Objectives Creation a research roadmap Creation of a common experience framework Creation of a stronger network

4. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Creation of a Road Map Network participants and their associate partners will identify where the XP and AMs are, where they are going and how results could be reached

5. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Creation of a common experience framework On the base of the analysis on XP and AMs made in the previous action line, a set of common rules to describe experiences will be identified

6. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Creation of a stronger network On the basis of the identified common research topics and experience framework, a more ambitious network will be built and then proposed at the beginning of the 6th framework. This is likely to be a very challenging project that will be focused also on data acquisition, arrangement and publishing on the web

7. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi How to get the objectives The objectives will be pursued putting together critical mass from the Academia and the Industry, placing specific attention also to the world of consultants, who have been among the early promoters of XP and AMs.

8. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Instruments Workshops: to identifying core areas for future research and the key elements for the experience framework. Interaction with existing EU network projects Reports available through the web

9. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Instruments 1/3 Workshops: to identifying core areas for future research and the key elements for the experience framework. In particular, research on: value added by each XP and AMs practice; relationships among XP, AMs, and Open Software Development; roles and interactions between developers, managers, and customers; pair programming; testing and quality assurance.

10. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Instruments 2/3 Interaction with existing EU network projects: ESERNET CBSE-net.

11. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Instruments 3/3 Reports available through the web: to ensure the maximum exposure and fallback of the results of the project.

12. Bolzano, 17th October 2002 Prof. Ing. G. Succi Partners Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Universidad Politècnica de Valencia, Technische Universität München, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, University of Sheffield, Datasiel.