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Agile: Coming to A Project Near You
Aaron Smith (June 17, 2004)

Agile project management thought leader Jim Highsmith explains the core values and principles that can help guide project managers who are seeking to create an agile environment on their projects and teams.

Ask a roomful of software project managers how many have of them are familiar with agile methodologies, and it's a safe bet that almost everybody will raise their hands. Ask the same question of a roomful of project managers from other industries, and far fewer hands will go up. The agile approach is still new, if no longer entirely unknown, to the greater project management world outside software development.

But that is starting to change as word of the benefits of flexible, customer-driven approaches to project management spread, thanks, in no small part, to the work of agile thought leaders such as Alistair Cockburn, Doug DeCarlo, Ken Schwaber and Jim Highsmith.

ProjectsAtWork begins an ongoing series on agile project management methods with this exclusive conversation with Highsmith, author of the highly acclaimed new book "Agile Project Management — Creating Innovative Products" (Addison-Wesley; 2004).

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