Nationality American Education University of Oslo Role Software developer | Name Alistair Cockburn Occupation Computer programmer | |
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Books Writing Effective Use Cases, Agile Software Develop, Crystal Clear: A Human‑p, Agile software developm Similar People Jim Highsmith, Kent Beck, Ken Schwaber, Ron Jeffries, Martin Fowler | ||
Alistair cockburn agile is for wimps software development in the 21st century
Alistair Cockburn (born November 19, 1953)) is an American computer scientist, known as one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development.
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- Alistair cockburn agile is for wimps software development in the 21st century
- Opening keynote dr alistair cockburn why agile works
- Life and work
- Selected publications
- References
Opening keynote dr alistair cockburn why agile works
Life and work
Cockburn started studying the methods of OO software development for IBM. From 1994, he formed "Humans and Technology" in Salt Lake City. He obtained his degree in computer science at the Case Western Reserve University. In 2003 he received his PhD degree from the University of Oslo.
Cockburn helped write the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, the agile PM Declaration of Interdependence in 2005, and co-founded the International Consortium for Agile in 2009 (with Ahmed Sidky and Ash Rofail). He is a principal expositor of the use case for documenting business processes and behavioral requirements for software, and inventor of the Cockburn Scale for categorizing software projects.
The methodologies in the Crystal family (e.g., Crystal Clear), described by Alistair Cockburn, are considered examples of lightweight methodology. The Crystal family is colour-coded to signify the "weight" of methodology needed. Thus, a large project which has consequences that involve risk to human life would use the Crystal Sapphire or Crystal Diamond methods. A small project might use Crystal Clear, Crystal Yellow or Crystal Orange.
Cockburn presented his Hexagonal Architecture 2005 as a solution to problems with e.g. traditional layering, coupling and entanglement.