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Agile Project Management

By Jim Highsmith

"Jim Highsmith is one of a few modern writers who are helping us understand the new nature of work in the knowledge economy." --Rob Austin. Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School

"This is the project management book we've all been waiting for - the book that effectively combines agile methods and rigorous project management. Not only does this book help us make sense of project management in this current world of iterative, incremental agile methods but the book is an all-around good read!" -- Lynne Ellen, Sr. VP & CIO
DTE Energy

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Agile Software Development Ecosystems

By Jim Highsmith
Foreword by Tom DeMarco
Addison Wesley, 2002 IBSN 0-201-76043-6.

"Jim Highsmith has put all this together into a kind of survey introduction to the agile methodologies. He has had the good sense to present this not just as a discussion of concept, but to tell it as a story. As in any good story, it is the people who matter most. And so he tells us about agile approaches by telling us about its principal advocates and inventors, people like Kent Beck, Alistair Cockburn, Martin Fowler, and the other 'light methodologists.' These are the minds that are changing how IT gets done. Their story is what Agile Software Development Ecosystems is all about." -- Tom DeMarco

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Adaptive Software Development
A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems

By James A. Highsmith
Foreword by Ken Orr
Dorset House Publishing, 2000 ISBN: 0-932633-40-4

Winner of the 11th Annual Software Development Magazine JOLT Cola award for Product Excellence

"This is very likely the best book about software process that you will ever read." -- Scott Ambler, President, Ronin International

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Jim is coeditor of the Agile Software Development Series for Addison-Wesley.

Publications by Jim Highsmith

Co-author of Chapter 7, "Another Look at Life Cycles," in " Field Guide to Project Management," 2nd edition, edited by David I Cleland.

" What is Agile Software Development?," Cover article in CrossTalk magazine, October 2002.

" Does Agility Work?," Cover article in Software Development magazine, June 2002.

Agile Software Development articles " The Business of Innovation" and "The People Factor" in IEEE Computer, Sept & Nov 2001, by Jim Highsmith and Alistair Cockburn.

" The Agile Manifesto," with Martin Fowler. Cover article in Software Development magazine, August 2001.

Extreme Programming, An Overview from e-Business Application Delivery.

"Retiring Lifecycle Dinosaurs," cover article, Software Testing & Quality, July/August 2000.

"Project Management at the Edge," The IT Project Leader, February 2000.

"Adaptive Management: Patterns for an e-business Era," Cutter IT Journal, Sept. 1999.

" Optimization or Adaptation: In Pursuit of a Paradigm," with Sylvain Hamel, Software Development, April, 2000. Also included in the book Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development, Larry Constantine, Addison-Wesley, 2001.

"Beyond Level Five: From Optimization to Adaptation," Software Development, Sept. 1999. Also included in the book Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development, Larry Constantine, Addison-Wesley, 2001.

"Order for Free: An Organic Model for Adaption," Software Development, March 1998. Also included in the book Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development, Larry Constantine, Addison-Wesley, 2001.

"Messy, Exciting, and Anxiety-Ridden: Adaptive Software Development," American Programmer, April 1997.

"Feasibility Analysis: Mission Possible," with Lynne Nix, Software Development, July 1996. Also included in the book The Unified Process Inception Phase, editied by Scott W. Ambler and Larry L. Constantine, CMP Books, 2000.

"RADical Software Development," with Sam Bayer, American Programmer, June 1994.

"Software Ascents," American Programmer, June 1992.