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Wild West to Agile: Adventures in Software Development Evolution and Revolution
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Wild West to Agile: Adventures in Software Development Evolution and Revolution

by Jim Highsmith
May 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
304 pages
8h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Roots of Agile

(1990–2000)

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IN MAY 2000, about six months after Adaptive Software Development (ASD; Highsmith, 2000) was released, I received the following email from a Midwest CEO.

I purchased your book a few months ago and have been reading and marking it since. I purchased it because the first few chapters clearly indicated Adaptive Software Development (ASD) well suited my current projects. Your narrative style makes ASD easy to understand and caused me to read it again to gain even more subtlety. I have recommended it to my peers, as ASD is what real product development is like. I have improved our results over previous projects by ...

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ISBN: 9780137961146