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.

Works

book

Agile Software Development

Cockburn, Alistair. *Agile Software Development*. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002.

article

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/.

Related books

Book

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.

Book

When Others Look to You

Forming, Renewing, Eroding, Repeating

A companion edition that extends the leadership cycle across formation, renewal, erosion, and repetition with sharper operational patterns.