XP Day is a two day international conference about Agile Software Development for software developers, project leaders, IT managers, testers, architects, and coaches.
We encourage session proposals from experienced practitioners of agile software development methods, such as Adaptive, Crystal, DSDM, Feature-Driven Development, Lean, Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP).
XP Day provides a good opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing experiences, and is suited both for experienced practitioners and those wanting an introduction Agile Software Development. The focus of this conference is on practical knowledge, real-world experience and active participation of all attendees.
Why Organise a Session?
Organising a session is the best way to learn from such a conference. It provides an opportunity to share your experiences, to get feedback on your ideas, and to try new session formats.Session organisers will get free admission to the conference on the day that they present.
Session Format
We believe that the best way to learn is through hands-on experience and therefore value interaction and audience participation over PowerPoint presentations and papers. Successful sessions from previous years have been tutorials, workshops, simulations and games.Sessions will be organised into three tracks over two days. Each session may be 45 minutes, 1½ hours or 3 hours in duration.
The broad areas we would like to cover are:
Possible session topics include, but are not limited to:
Review Criteria
Submission details
For a session proposal, the following information is required (you may provide more information if you feel that's appropriate):Session proposals should be submitted before the submission deadline below to [email protected] in plain text, PDF, Postscript, or Microsoft Office or OpenOffice format.
Submission Review and Acceptance Process
The session proposal submission and acceptance process consists of 5 phases: submission, acceptance, re-working of conditionally accepted proposals, shepherding, and materials submission.Proposals that meet the minimal criteria mentioned above will be considered for acceptance. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. All sessions will receive written feedback. Sessions will be accepted, rejected, or conditionally accepted.
Sessions are conditionally accepted if the program committee thinks the session is of interest for the conference, but needs some (re)work. The criteria for acceptance will be explicitly stated and through assistance of a program committee member, the organisers will get a chance to work on the proposal. After conditional acceptance, the program committee will decide on final acceptance or rejection.
When a session proposal has been accepted, it will enter the shepherding process. One of the reviewers of the submission will become your shepherd and will help you to further refine and improve the session. After that, organisers can submit materials if the session requires it.