Explore/Sources/The Heart of Agile.articleThe Heart of Agile.Alistair CockburnCockburn, Alistair. "The Heart of Agile." https://heartofagile.com/.Open in graphPreviousAlistair Cockburn — How to Step Up Stepping Up: Promoting GuestNextAlistair Cockburn, Andrew Hunt, Arie van Bennekum, Brian Marick, Dave Thomas, James Grenning, Jeff Sutherland, Jim Highsmith, Jon Kern, Ken Schwaber, Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Mike Beedle, Robert C Martin, Ron Jeffries, Steve Mellor, and Ward Cunningham — Manifesto for Agile Software Development.Related concepts2 conceptsRelated concepts2 conceptsConceptAgileAgile is used in a software engineering sense. Agile refers to iterative development approaches that shorten feedback cycles, emphasize incremental delivery, and increase team-level ownership of ongoing change.View Concept →ConceptFeedbackFeedback names how systems stay in contact with their own effects. It becomes important whenever action and consequence are separated by time, scale, or abstraction. It helps preserve learning, correction, and trust in ongoing coordination, but can fail when dashboards stay green while lived harm accumulates off the ledger. It differs from trust because feedback is the returning signal itself; trust is the bridge that lets people act before every signal arrives. It differs from correction because feedback is what returns; correction is the work of updating in response.View Concept →Related books1 bookRelated books1 bookBookCouplingCohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of ResponsibilityA practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.View book
ConceptAgileAgile is used in a software engineering sense. Agile refers to iterative development approaches that shorten feedback cycles, emphasize incremental delivery, and increase team-level ownership of ongoing change.View Concept →
ConceptFeedbackFeedback names how systems stay in contact with their own effects. It becomes important whenever action and consequence are separated by time, scale, or abstraction. It helps preserve learning, correction, and trust in ongoing coordination, but can fail when dashboards stay green while lived harm accumulates off the ledger. It differs from trust because feedback is the returning signal itself; trust is the bridge that lets people act before every signal arrives. It differs from correction because feedback is what returns; correction is the work of updating in response.View Concept →
BookCouplingCohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of ResponsibilityA practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.View book
