Person
Alistair Cockburn
Software methodologist (Agile, Crystal, hexagonal architecture) and writer on cooperative knowledge work.
Why this matters
Cockburn bridges craft practice and team coordination—how collaboration fails and recovers in delivery.
Works5 sources
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Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
Beck, Kent, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, and Dave Thomas. "Manifesto for Agile Software Development." 2001. https://agilemanifesto.org/.
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Agile Software Development
Cockburn, Alistair. Agile Software Development. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002.
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Hexagonal Architecture (Ports and Adapters).
Cockburn, Alistair. "Hexagonal Architecture (Ports and Adapters)." https://alistair.cockburn.us/hexagonal-architecture/.
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How to Step Up Stepping Up: Promoting Guest
Cockburn, Alistair. "How to Step Up Stepping Up: Promoting Guest Leadership for Successful Collaboration." Cutter IT Journal. https://www.cutter.com/article/how-step-stepping-promoting-guest-leadership-successful-collaboration-494516.
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The Heart of Agile.
Cockburn, Alistair. "The Heart of Agile." https://heartofagile.com/.
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Related books3 books
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Coupling
Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility
A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.
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When Others Look to You
Renewal and Erosion in Leadership
A leadership field guide to how influence forms, how trust is renewed, and how erosion begins when responsibility drifts from practice.
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When Others Look to You: Companion Edition
Forming, Renewing, Eroding, Repeating
How leadership influence forms, renews, erodes, and repeats across the full cycle of responsibility in practice.
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