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Jim Highsmith is a renowned software engineer born in 1945. He has extensive experience in the field of software development, particularly in the research and promotion of agile development methods.

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“Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.”

Focus Project Management Agile Team Based

Book:Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

Source: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

“Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.”

Values Agile Streamline

Book:Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

Source: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

“Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.”

People Asks Answers Successful Projects Facade Methodology

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“If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.”

People Ifs Together Process Amount Projects

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“Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.”

Simple Intelligent Response Guides Routine Innovative Comprehensive

Book:Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility

Source: Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility

“If you find that your organization can't make the hard decisions that Scrum demands, then high-risk, uncertain projects have very little probability of success in your organization.”

Ifs Littles Hard Decision Risk Demand Projects Organization Uncertain Probability Scrum High Risk Hard Decision

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“Process is not a substitute for skill.”

Process Skills Substitutes

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“A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.”

Products Weight Size Ceremony Methodology

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“The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner”

Way Done Projects Best Way Faster Programming Software Software Engineering

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“Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.”

Process Understanding Discipline Skills Formality Documentation

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“Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.”

Opportunity Ability Views Organization Threat Agility Ability To Adapt

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“The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.”

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Book:Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems

Source: Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems

About the Author

Born: 1945
Known for: Software Engineer
Quotes: 12

Books & Sources

Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative ProductsRelated source material

Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise AgilityRelated source material

Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex SystemsRelated source material

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