Message from the Conference Chairs

The accepted papers from the insights and research at work stages at Agile2011 are documented in the IEEE Xplore digital library. We are proud to present a set of high?????????quality papers, focusing on a variety of aspects such as lean software development, collaboration, explanations of agile methods, user?????????centered design, how agile practices can be spread, how to keep them effective, how various teams have combined agile and lean practices, and how decision making is done on agile projects. The Insights stage received 64 submissions, including several that were recommended from other stages. Only 28 submissions were accepted for shepherding. This limit was due to the number of shepherds and the number of submissions each shepherd was able to adopt. Over two months, authors of accepted proposals completely wrote and revised their insights papers with helpful comments and review by their shepherds. After two months of intense interaction between insights authors and shepherds, 26 finished papers were accepted for publication in the IEEE proceedings and for presentation at the conference. We truly appreciate the hard work of all authors and shepherds who worked through many iterations of feedback. For the Research at Work stage we received in total 31 papers, 24 full papers and 7 workshop contributions. We rejected 4 full papers without review, the rest went through a double?????????blind review process. Thirteen papers were selected for presentation at the conference. For the New ideas and Emerging Results workshop, we accepted four, and further invited four of the rejected full papers to shorten their contribution. In addition, we got one workshop contribution transferred from another stage. We are very grateful to the program committee members, who along with additional reviewers wrote 94 reviews for the research papers, four for each full paper, and two for each workshop contribution.