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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
304 pages
8h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Foreword

I STILL REMEMBER WHEN I first saw Jim, in the late 1990s on a stage at a software conference in far-away Wellington, New Zealand. As someone immersed in Extreme Programming, I didn’t expect much from someone steeped in the traditional software engineering processes of the time. Yet I experienced a talk full of refreshing thinking, giving credible reasons and citing experiences that resonated with my own sense of modern software management.

Jim’s conference biography only hinted at his experiences thus far—a programmer from the early days of computers, who went deep into structured methods, but also saw their weaknesses. The decade before this talk, he’d been actively exploring a new route, one that had a lot of similarities with my ...

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