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Reimagining Agile: Refresh, extend, and make Agility accessible to all.
About a year ago, we – the Reimagining Agile Launch Group – published an article on both LinkedIn an…
Jim Highsmith
Adventurer, Catalyst, Storyteller
Co-author of the Agile Manifesto with 60 years’ experience as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, software developer, and agile pioneer. Awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Agile Management Forum, September 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal.
I’ve always been an adventurer, trying out a variety of adventure sports from mountaineering to century bike racing. These sports involve taking calculated risks whose consequences are learned by experience. Likewise, with my 60-year career in software development and management, I made several risky, but not reckless, career pivots.
Relying on my engineering and management experience, I’ve been a catalyst bringing people together— from diverse functional areas like IT, marketing, finance, and software development – and helping to bridge the gaps between teams and executives. Founding member of Agile Alliance. Co-founder and first president of the Agile Project Leadership Network. Advisor to Agile Leadership Journey. Executive Consultant at ThoughtWorks. Director of Cutter Consortium’s Agile Project Management practice.
Whether I’m relating mountain climbing to adapting to change, or presenting on agility to conference audiences, I rely on storytelling to provide emotional “hooks” so audiences can remember facts and figures. Author of six agile books, the latest being Wild West to Agile (2023).
Posts
In 2001, the “lightweight” methodology community was the size of a marble, while today, it is expansive. In 2001, the internet was just unfolding; today, AI is ascendant. In 2…
Videos
This event occurred on February 13, 2024. There were two sessions with the same panel. This is a recording of the second session. You can find the first session here. Below is…
Videos
This event occurred on February 13, 2024. There were two sessions with the same panel. This is a recording of the first session. You can find the second session here. Below is…
Event Sessions
The Enterprise Agility Manifesto Initiative was officially announced at Agile2025. This new joint effort from the Agile Alliance and the Project Management Institute (PMI) aim…
Event Sessions
The Enterprise Agility Manifesto Initiative is a new initiative from Agile Alliance and Project Management Institute (PMI) that aims to define what agility means at the organi…
Event Sessions
Reimagining Agile: Refreshing, extending, and making Agility accessible to allThe Agile community has modernized software development and more; maybe it’s time to turn our tra…
Books
Wild West to Agile is drawn from personal experience, from the Apollo moon mission to digital transformations.
In 2023, "technology is your business--no matter what your bu…
