Jim HighsmithPresented By: Tania IramPresented to: Sir Ansar

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

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.

• 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

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.

Life and work

•Areas of consulting include:▫ agile software development

▫ collaboration

▫ project management

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)

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

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.” 

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.”

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.

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)

Thank You