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Take agility out of its product development context and think of it in its more familiar usage, as descriptive of a person or animal that has speed, grace, and flexibility.
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As Highsmith has done in his book Agile Project Management, we’ve replaced “software” with “product” in the Agile Manifesto, and throughout the book, so agility can apply to all types of product development efforts.
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The CMM is a development model created for the U.S. Department of Defense by Carnegie Mellon University, which created the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). The term maturity relates to the degree of formality and optimization of processes, from adhoc practices to formally defined steps to managed result metrics to active optimization of the processes.
The PMI is the certifying body of the project management profession and the developer and publisher of the Project Manager’s Body of Knowledge.
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Quoted in Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Second Edition (New York: Pearson Educational, 2010).
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Freedman, R. (2016). The Roots of Agile: History and Background. In: The Agile Consultant. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6053-0_17
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