Top 6 Alistair Cockburn Quotes

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

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

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#5. 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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#6. We get things wrong before we get things right.

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