Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development XP 2019 held in Montreal QC Canada in May 2019. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a hybrid forum where agile researchers academics practitioners thought leaders coaches and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations research results experiences concerns challenges and trends. Following this history for both researchers and seasoned practitioners XP 2019 provided an informal environment to network share and discover trends in Agile for the next 20 yearsThe 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: agile adoption agile practices; large-scale agile; agility beyond IT and the future of agile.