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Books

This is a list of books I have authored or co-authored.

Edge: value driven digital transformation

Jim Highsmith, Linda Luu, David Robinson

Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and  EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation….

Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility

Jim Highsmith

The agile software movement has now been around for a full decade. As coauthor of the original Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith has been at its heart since the beginning. He’s spent the past decade helping hundreds of organizations transition to agile/lean. When it comes to agile, he’s seen it all–in a variety of industries, worldwide.

Agile Software Development Ecosystems: Problems, Practices, and Principles

Jim Highsmith

Presents the key practices of Agile development approaches, offers overviews of specific techniques, and shows how to choose the approach that best suits your organization. This book deals with: delivering value to the customer, focusing on individual developers and their skills, collaboration, and an emphasis on producing working software.

Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

Jim Highsmith

Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and refining it to support…

Adaptive Software development

Jim Highsmith

Offers an alternative to the belief that optimization is the only solution to increasingly complex problems, a series of frameworks to help an organization employ adaptive principles, establish collaboration, and provide a path for organizations needing to use an adaptive approach on larger projects. Softcover. DLC: Computer software–Development.