Wild West to Agile

Jim Highsmith is a well-known agilist and author whose career spanned six decades of rapid technology and business change. Jim has been at the forefront of software technologies' response to that change from working on 1970s COBOL business applications to recent engagements for digital transformation. With decades of business management and software development experience he is uniquely qualified to explore the history of software development to help us prepare for the ever more chaotic future. Jim is the author of EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation (Addison-Wesley 2020); Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility (Addison-Wesley 2014); Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (Addison-Wesley 2009); Agile Software Development Ecosystems (Addison-Wesley 2002); and Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems (Dorset House 2000) winner of the prestigious Jolt Award and of the 2005 international Stevens Award for outstanding contributions to software development. Jim is a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto a founding member of Agile Alliance coauthor of the Declaration of Interdependence for project leaders and cofounder and first president of the Agile Leadership Network. Jim has consulted with IT product development organizations and software companies in the US Europe Canada South Africa Australia Brazil China Japan India and New Zealand. . Language: English