WBMA 2014 - 5th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods

The Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods (WBMA) is the research stage of the Agile Brazil Conference. It is an academic event on Agile software development. For this fifth edition, we hope to repeat the success of previous years, when the workshop received many papers and the participation of a large number of students, researchers, and professionals from all over World.
Last year, Agile Brazil (the event hosting WBMA) counted over 1000 attendees from the whole world. This year the workshop expects to receive even more participants from Brazil and researchers and students from abroad, coming from top international universities and IT companies.
Topics of Interest
The main topics of interest for this workshop are:
- Adoption of Agile / Lean
- Agile Methods for Systems and Software Architecture
- Agile for the Development of Critical Systems
- Human and Social Aspects in Agile Methods
- Agile Project Management, Outsourcing and Governance in the agile context
- Development in distributed and global agile teams
- DevOps and Continuous Delivery
- Teaching and coaching Agile and Lean
- Scaling Agile to large corporations
- Experimental studies with Agile / Lean
- Tools and techniques on Agile / Lean
- Conceptual Studies and theoretical foundations of Agile / Lean
- Managing Technical Debt
- Innovation and entrepreneurship Agile
- Lean Startups
- Agile / Lean in distributed environments and large teams
- Agile in Government
- Metrics, Measurements and Mining repositories in the context of agile
- Patterns and anti-patterns applying Agile / Lean
- User roles (co-participation)
- Agile practices and future trends, evolution and revolution (technical or managerial)
- Agile principles, Lean Manufacturing and other disciplines
- Agile Testing & Quality: techniques, patterns and automated support
- Organizational transformation and cultural aspects on agile businesses
- User Experience (UX) environments on Agile / Lean
- Test-driven Development
- Refactoring Techniques
- Techniques for Continuous Inspection
Papers about other topics related to agile methods are also welcomed.
Shepherding
WBMA provides a shepherding program that is an opportunity to authors in getting advices on the structure and content of their papers from specialists that are members of the program committee. Further information about shepherding activity can be found at . To request a shepherd, the authors should submit an extended abstract, and two weeks later an initial draft. The initial draft should contain at least 80% of the material that would be included on the final submission.