Jim Highsmith is director of the Cutter Consortium’s e-Project Management Practice, president of Information Architects, Inc., and author of Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems. He has 30 years experience as a consultant, software developer, manager, and writer. Jim has published dozens of articles in major industry publications and his ideas about project management in the Internet era were featured recently in ComputerWorld and the Economic Times in India.

In the last ten years, he has worked with both IT organizations and software companies in the US, Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, India, and New Zealand to help them adapt to the accelerated pace of development in increasingly complex, uncertain environments.