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Below is a list of industry experience reports that appeared in the proceedings.

Agile Development

Experiences Applying Agile Methodologies (SCRUM) to Software Development in a Research Organisation
Ryan Fraser

Going Agile - A Case Study
Dwayne Read and Grey Properjohn

Learning from Experience: A New Approach to Evaluating Health Information Systems
Nicola T. Shaw

Integrating Agile Concepts into Traditional Software Development Processes
Aidan Morgan

Application Development

Lessons Learned from Developing Second Life Applications
Neisha Hitchcock, Kenichi Yoshimura and Zaid Faydi

Development of the BOVINE Browser: An Application Designed to Provide Access to the Internet for People with Low Vision
Scott Hollier, Iain Murray, Chris Duane and Ruchi Permvattana

Implementing Hierarchical Storage on the Basis of File Use
Simon Kravis

Implementing a Behaviour Tree Analysis Tool using Eclipse Development Frameworks
Phillip Papacostantinou, Patrick Lee, Tuan Tran and Vincent Phillips

Model Driven Development

Multi-Platform MDE Workbench Architecture
Daniel Exertier, Benoît Langlois, and Olivier Cault

Integration of a Document-Centered Process Model with a Model-based Development Approach
Michael Deynet

Business Process Oriented Requirements Modeling and Systems Fulfillment - a Meta Model Driven Approach
John Forrest

Open Source Development

Development of an Open Source Inundation Model
Duncan Gray and Ole Nielsen

Opening a Closed System - Implementing a Remote Communication Mechanism Over an Existing Product
John Ryan-Brown, Simon McBride and Nathan Keynes

PoSSIS - THALES Internalized Open Source
Didier Boulet

Service Oriented Development
Challenges of Deploying SOA in Western Power
Daniel M. Berinson

Performance Modeling for e-Government Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)
Paul Brebner, Liam O’Brien and Jon Gray

Project Management

Five Metrics Each One of Us Should be Collecting and Using
Judy Bamberger

From Scrum to Solo: How Small is Too Small a Team to Still Call it Software Engineering?
Andrew Dent

Building Bridges: Effective Mixed Teams of Software Professionals and Research Academics
Ronald Jones, Ryan Fraser and Terry Rankine

TRELIS: (another) Death March Project?
Diane Jamieson, Paul Wilkins, Greg Forbes and Neville Binning

Education and Training

Improving the Success and Effectiveness of Software Developer Training
Ashley M. Aitken

The Benefits to Students of Work Experience Programmes
Tracy Footitt

Skill Set Visualisation for Software Engineering Job Positions at Varying Levels of Autonomy and Responsibility
Brian R. von Konsky, David Hay and Bob Hart

Methodologies

Improving Combinatorial Methods to Optimise Efficient Test Suite Generation
Christopher Stanbridge, John Ryan-Brown and David Hansen

Experience Report: Development and Utilisation of aseXML in the Energy Industry
Andrew Screen

23 years of Refactoring
Philip Christensen