Jim Highsmith is a pioneer in the field of agile software development. He is one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and helped establish many agile practices. Highsmith created Adaptive Software Development and has authored several influential books. He has over 30 years of experience consulting with companies to help them implement agile methods. Highsmith continues to be a sought-after speaker and influential thinker in agile development.

1. Jim Highsmith
Presented By: Tania Iram
Presented to: Sir Ansar

2. About Jim
• Author of books in the field of software development
methodology
• Creator of Adaptive Software Development
• Winner of the 2000 Jolt Award, and the Stevens Award
in 2005
• One of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto,
the founding document for Agile software development

3. Industry Contributions & Affiliations
• Coauthor of Agile Manifesto
• Founding member of The Agile Alliance
• Coauthor of the Declaration of Interdependence for project
leaders
• Cofounder and first president of the Agile Project Leadership
Network.
• A frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, published
dozens of articles in major industry publications.

4. • Executive consultant with ThoughtWorks, Inc.
• Working as a principal of Information Architects,
Inc., based in Salt Lake City, Highsmith taught and
consulted on software quality process improvement,
project management, and accelerated development
techniques.
• Served as director of the Agile Project Management
Advisory Service for the Cutter Consortium.
Industry Contributions & Affiliations

5. Life and work
• Acquired degrees are in Electrical Engineering and
Management .
• More than 30 years experience as an IT manager, project
manager, product manager, consultant, and software
developer.
• Consultant to product-development companies in the U.S.,
Europe, Canada, Japan, India, South Africa, Australia, and
New Zealand to help them adapt to an accelerated pace of
development in increasingly complex, unstable environments.

6. Life and work
• Areas of consulting include:
▫ agile software development
▫ collaboration
▫ project management

7. Publications
• Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing
Complex Systems. Dorset House Publishing.
• Agile Software Development Ecosystems. Foreword by Tom DeMarco.
Addison-Wesley Pearson Education
• Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products. Addison-Wesley
Professional.
• Co-editor, with Alistair Cockburn, of the Agile Software Development Series
of books from Addison Wesley.
• Adaptive Leadership (2013)

8. Adaptive Software Development
• Highlights of this book:
▫ Analogy of mountain climbing to illustrate his points about
teamwork, planning, and adaptation to rapidly changing
conditions.
▫ Demonstrates how to maintain the effectiveness of software
development without sacrificing efficiency of ideation,
design, coding, and testing.
▫ Covers Accidental software development, adaptive
conceptual model and adaptive development model

9. Adaptive Leadership
“Adaptive/Agile transformations are not about
changing, they are about adapting. Change
happens. The goal is to grow people and
organizations that both respond to change and
generate change for competitors.”

10. Famous Quotes by Jim
“Agility is the ability to both create and respond to
change in order to profit in a turbulent business
environment.”
“Rules can be barriers to hide behind or guidelines for
the wise to consider and break when the
circumstances justify it”
“To inspire executives and managers to build
adaptive/agile organizations and provide them with
the framework and tools to do it.”

11. The Agile Software Development Series
• Shared the experiences of Agile developers.
• Individual techniques (such as Use Cases), group
techniques (such as collaborative decision making),
and proven solutions to different problems from a
variety of organizational cultures.
• The result is a core of Agile best practices to enrich
experience and improvement in work.

12. Articles
• Determining Business Value (January 23, 2013)
• Time after Time (January 28, 2014)
• Don’t ‘Control’ Agile projects (March 20, 2014)
• Constraints Driven Innovation (October 3, 2012)

13. Thank You