This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 12th International
Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2011, held in Madrid,
Spain, in May 2011. The year 2011 marked the 10th anniversary of the
Agile Manifesto. In this spirit, the XP conference continued its fine
tradition of promoting agility by disseminating new research results in
a timely manner and by bringing together researchers and practitioners
for a fruitful mutual exchange of experiences. As introduced for XP
2010, there were again two different program committees, one for
research papers and one for experience reports. Regarding the research
papers, 11 out of 56 submissions were accepted as full papers; and as
far as the experience reports were concerned, the respective number was
4 out of 17 submissions. In addition to these papers, this volume also
includes the short research papers, the abstracts of the posters, the
position papers of the PhD symposium, and the abstracts of the
workshops.