# Jim Highsmith

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Agile Practitioners' Round Table 2024

In this episode of Agile Practitioners' Round Table 2024, we gather a roundtable of Agile seasoned practitioners – Jim Highsmith, Sanjeev Augustine, Jon kern, Alistair Cockburn, Tricia Broderick, Joshua Kerviesky, Balaji T, Saket Bansal, Dave Smith , Michael lloyd and last but not the least, Petula…

WBIT#3: Can good team dynamics make Agile obsolete?

ApartmentAdvisor helps renters find apartments and navigate more complicated markets.  What were the people who wrote the Agile Manifesto thinking? Listen to our podcast with original signatory Jim Highsmith and find out.  You think the tech is impressive? Wes played the first “perfect” game of Don…

S5 E6 - Jim Highsmith – Navigating the Past to Shape the Future

In this episode, I have a fascinating conversation with Jim Highsmith. We dive into Jim’s six-decade career in software development, his role in the Agile movement, and how his early influences continue to shape his thinking on digital transformation today. Jim shares stories from the punch card er…

Jim Highsmith on Reimagining Agility in an AI World

In this special episode of AI Today, recorded live at Agile2025, hosts Kathleen Walch and Avinash Dhanraj sit down with Agile Manifesto co-author and Agile pioneer Jim Highsmith to explore the intersection of AI and agility in the enterprise.  This episode kicks off the AI Today Agile & AI mini-ser…

Are You Tracking the Wrong Metrics? How AI Can De-Risk Delivery

How do you know if you’re tracking the right project metrics—or if you’ve been chasing the wrong numbers all along? In this episode, Galen sits down with Lior Gerson, Co-founder & CEO of TargetBoard.ai, to unpack how AI is reshaping KPI management and why aligning metrics with business strategy is …

From Agile to AI: Avoiding the Same Transformation Mistakes

Episode Show Notes: From Agile to AI - Avoiding the Same Transformation Mistakes Guest: Sanjiv Augustine, Founder & CEO of LitheSpeed Host: Kumar Dattatreyan Episode Date: October 2025 Duration: ~41 minutes Watch on YouTube Ever wonder why your company's AI initiative feels like that disastrous A…

Episode 2: Jim Highsmith

This episode of Leadership in Flux features Jim Highsmith. Jim Highsmith is an industry advisor, having retired as Executive Consultant at ThoughtWorks, Inc. in 2021. Prior to Thoughtworks, he was Director of Cutter Consortium's Agile Project Management practice. He has nearly 60 years' experience…

Unlearning Executive Judgment: Building Decision-Making Muscles in the Age of AI with Jim Highsmith

Jim Highsmith has been thinking about decision-making for a long time. When he wrote Agile Project Management in 2004, he went looking for practical guidance on decision-making in the project management literature and found very little. That gap matters even more now. In this episode, Jim and I tal…

Jim Highsmith - Growing up poor, army adventures, hunting and more

Jake Willcox and Courtney Hunter Ariola are joined by Jake's father-in-law, Jim Highsmith. He tells stories about growing up in Monroe, army adventures in Europe, ski slopes, running of the bulls, coon hunting stories and more. Be sure to check out www.grassrootsandgrounded.com to find our line of …

374: Are We Repeating Agile Transformation Mistakes with AI? with Jim Highsmith

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen Organizations are moving quickly to deploy AI. But are they building the adaptability, judgment, and decision systems required to use it well, or repeating the same mistakes …