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Jim Highsmith is co-author of the Agile Manifesto with 60 years of experience as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, software developer, and agile pioneer.
In an uncertain and turbulent world, success belongs to companies that have the capacity to create change, and maybe even chaos, for their competitors. Creating change requires innovation, and agile project management can help. But it isn't for every project, manager or organization.
This article is part of ProjectsAtWork's ongoing series on agile project management, adapted from the book Agile Project Management (Addison-Wesley, 2004) by Jim Highsmith, who is cofounder of the Agile Alliance and director of the agile project management practice at Cutter Consortium.
Agile Project Management (APM) is a set of values, principles and practices that assist project teams in coming to grips with this challenging environment. The core values of APM ("Four to the Core") address both the need to build agile, adaptable products and the need to create agile, adaptable development teams. There is no Agility for Dummies. Agility isn’t a silver bullet. You don’t achieve it in five easy steps. So what is it? I’ve characterized agility in two statements:
1. Agility is the ability to both create and respond to change
in order to profit in a turbulent business environment.
2. Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability.
In an uncertain and turbulent world, success belongs to companies that have the capacity to create change, and …
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