1. Mauro Bert Bolzano October 17th, 2002 SODALIA Contribution to the NAME Workshop

2. What is SODALIA ? Sodalia is a Telecom Italia company specialized in the development of advanced software products, solutions and services for the management of telecommunication networks and services medium-large projects multiple remote customers

3. Why are we interested in XP and AMs ? Software life cycle is getting shorter and shorter: our customers are asking for a new release every month Traditional methods are too heavy Our, formerly well established, methodology is now perceived as overhead

4. Motivations to explore XP and AMs rapidly changing requirements provide business value with a subset of the features test-first programming

5. We are not currently doing any sort of XP or AMs, but nevertheless we have several expectations on the future evolution of XP and AMs related to...

6. Complexity highly technological domain complex systems: made by several components/subsystems and COTS systems to be embedded into complex organizations and processes evolution driven by market needs

7. Customers Operator Center, Information System Marketing & Planning Departments Several organizations involved in service delivering lack of a single customer when building frameworks analyst, subject matter expert, customer mediator

8. Teams large geographically distributed teams systems should be easy customizable by a different team/company (at customer’s premises) several roles (analyst, configuration managers, developers, V&V, on-site support)

9. Architecture framework based software systems several customizations of the system tailorable process agility –different phases –different components –backbone

10. Sodalia North America – 12301 Worldgate Drive, Herndon, VA Tel: +1-571-203-7200 - Fax: +1-571-203-7201 - Internet: www.sodalia.com Sodalia S.p.A. - Via V. Zambra 1, 38100 Trento - ITALY Tel: +39 0461316111 - Fax: +390461316663 - Internet: www.sodalia.com