Jim Highsmith

Long ago and far away I worked with a financial software product company with European customers whose purchasing requirements included… Read More »Agile organizations need practices, not processes!

If you want to work in an agile company, ask one question, “Do you measure velocity and if so, how… Read More »Performance Hacking with Velocity

Image generated by Microsoft Designer Micromanaging has gotten a bad rap that maybe it doesn’t deserve it. Consider two of… Read More »Micromanaging the Right Way

The Iron Triangle, a 60-year old project management metric structure, continues to frustrate agile project teams. Developed in 1969 by… Read More »The ghosts of project management’s Iron Triangle still haunt agile teams.

Agility encourages “Doing Less.” Doing less can result in delivering more value, more throughput, more ROI, more creativity, and more… Read More »Do You Need a “not to do” list?

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos (Cullen Hightower). Morning Star is one of the largest tomato… Read More »Making Self-Organization Work at a Tomato Processor*

The issue of certification has been around forever. Every so often interest spikes again as people like  Jonny Williams and… Read More »Certification: It makes money, but does it make sense?

🏰How is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, first staged in 1597, relevant today? What possible linkage could there possibly be between… Read More »Romeo, a delivery manager? ❤️

❓Does your management insist on mission impossible delivery schedules? Want to develop software really fast? How about one minute? This… Read More »⚡️The One-Minute Methodology

Southwest Airlines’ recent holiday fiasco shed light into a dark corner of Information Technology. Consider the analogy of a car… Read More »Technical Debt is Rust you can’t see