AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success XP2025 Workshop Summary

Tomas Herda; Victoria Pichler; Zheying Zhang; Pekka Abrahamsson; Geir K. Hanssen

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-05799-0_1

AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success XP2025 Workshop Summary

Tomas Herda^*
, Victoria Pichler
, Zheying Zhang
, Pekka Abrahamsson
, Geir K. Hanssen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The full-day workshop on AI and Agile at XP 2025 convened a diverse group of researchers and industry practitioners to address the practical challenges and opportunities of integrating Artificial Intelligence into Agile software development. Through interactive sessions, participants identified shared frustrations related to integrating AI into Agile Software Development practices, including challenges with tooling, governance, data quality, and critical skill gaps. These challenges were systematically prioritized and analyzed to uncover root causes. The workshop culminated in the collaborative development of a research roadmap that pinpoints actionable directions for future work, including both immediate solutions and ambitious long-term goals. The key outcome is a structured agenda designed to foster joint industry-academic efforts to move from identified frustrations to successful implementation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - XP 2025 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Sibylle Peter, Martin Kropp, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Clare Dillon, Philipp Diebold, Deepti Jain, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Andrea Pinna
Publisher	Springer
Pages	3-13
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-032-05799-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-032-05799-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05799-0_1
Publication status	Published - 2025
Publication type	B3 Article in conference proceedings
Event	International Conference on Agile Software Development - Brugg, Switzerland Duration: 2 Jun 2025 → 5 Jun 2025

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	561 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-1356

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Agile Software Development
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Brugg
Period	2/06/25 → 5/06/25

Keywords

Agile Software Development
AI and Agile
AI Governance
Artificial Intelligence
Human-AI Collaboration
Prompt Engineering
Research Roadmap
Software Engineering
Workshop Report

Publication forum classification

Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Information Systems
Control and Systems Engineering
Business and International Management
Information Systems
Modelling and Simulation
Information Systems and Management

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Herda, T., Pichler, V., Zhang, Z., Abrahamsson, P., & Hanssen, G. K. (2025). AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success XP2025 Workshop Summary. In S. Peter, M. Kropp, T. Dingsøyr, C. Dillon, P. Diebold, D. Jain, M. I. Lunesu, & A. Pinna (Eds.), Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - XP 2025 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (1 ed., pp. 3-13). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 561 LNBIP). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05799-0_1

Herda, Tomas ; Pichler, Victoria ; Zhang, Zheying et al. / AI and Agile Software Development : From Frustration to Success XP2025 Workshop Summary. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - XP 2025 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Sibylle Peter ; Martin Kropp ; Torgeir Dingsøyr ; Clare Dillon ; Philipp Diebold ; Deepti Jain ; Maria Ilaria Lunesu ; Andrea Pinna. 1. ed. Springer, 2025. pp. 3-13 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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Herda, T, Pichler, V, Zhang, Z , Abrahamsson, P & Hanssen, GK 2025, AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success XP2025 Workshop Summary. in S Peter, M Kropp, T Dingsøyr, C Dillon, P Diebold, D Jain, MI Lunesu & A Pinna (eds), Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - XP 2025 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 561 LNBIP, Springer, pp. 3-13, International Conference on Agile Software Development, Brugg, Switzerland, 2/06/25. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05799-0_1

AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success XP2025 Workshop Summary. / Herda, Tomas; Pichler, Victoria; Zhang, Zheying et al.
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - XP 2025 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Sibylle Peter; Martin Kropp; Torgeir Dingsøyr; Clare Dillon; Philipp Diebold; Deepti Jain; Maria Ilaria Lunesu; Andrea Pinna. 1. ed. Springer, 2025. p. 3-13 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 561 LNBIP).

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Herda T, Pichler V, Zhang Z , Abrahamsson P, Hanssen GK. AI and Agile Software Development: From Frustration to Success XP2025 Workshop Summary. In Peter S, Kropp M, Dingsøyr T, Dillon C, Diebold P, Jain D, Lunesu MI, Pinna A, editors, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops - XP 2025 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. 1 ed. Springer. 2025. p. 3-13. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-05799-0_1