Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Alistair Cockburn

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American software developer Alistair Cockburn.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Alistair Cockburn is an American computer scientist, known as one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development. He cosigned the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

American - Software developer | Born: November 19, 1953

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

Alistair Cockburn

We get things wrong before we get things right.

Alistair Cockburn

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

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

Alistair Cockburn

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