Alistair Cockburn Quotes

• Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

  Alistair Cockburn

  Attitude, Technique, Use

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• Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

  Alistair Cockburn

  Communication, Skills, Community

  Steve Adolph, Alistair Cockburn, Paul Bramble, Andy Pols (2003). “Patterns for Effective Use Cases”, p.18, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• We get things wrong before we get things right.

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• A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).

  Alistair Cockburn

  Team, Technology, People

  Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.126, Pearson Education

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• I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

  Alistair Cockburn

  Apology, Survival, Hazards

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• We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

  Alistair Cockburn

  Development, Infancy, Projects

  Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.54, Pearson Education

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