Alistair Cockburn Quotes

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

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

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  Development   Infancy   Projects  

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

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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).

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  Team   Technology   People  

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

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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.

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  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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• 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?'

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  Attitude   Technique   Use  

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