Jim Highsmith is the senior vice president and director of the Agile Software Development & Project Management Practice and a fellow of the Business Technology Council at Cutter Consortium LLC, Arlington, Mass. Jim Highsmith has written several books on Agile project management and development: Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (2004), Agile Software Development Ecosystems (2002), and Adaptive Software Development (2000) that won a Jolt Award.