In 1992, I started working on a short-interval, iterative, RAD process that evolved into Adaptive
Software Development. The original process, developed in conjunction with colleague Sam Bayer,
was used to assist in marketing a mainframe RAD tool. Sam and I worked with prospects on pilot
projects—one-month projects with one-week iterations—in companies from Wall Street
brokerage houses to airlines to telecommunications firms. Over the next several years, Sam and I
(together and separately) successfully delivered more than 100 projects using these practices, and
in June 1994, we published an article on our experiences (Bayer and Highsmith 1994). During the
early to mid-1990s, I also worked with software companies that were using similar techniques on
very large projects, while Sam continued to evolve the practices in his work.