Alistair Cockburn is the author of the well-known books Surviving Object-Oriented Projects, Writing Effective Use Cases, and the recent Agile Software Development. He was the focal point for object-oriented development in the IBM Consulting Group in the early 1990s, where he constructed his first "agile" methodology. He has served as special advisor to the Central Bank of Norway in 1998, and as consultant on OO design, software project management, and lightweight process design in companies on four continents.
Alistair was one of the original authors of the agile manifesto in 2001. He posts large amounts of reading material at alistair.cockburn.us and Alistair's web page is at members.aol.com/acockburn.
Father of the Crystal light methodologies and a major inspiration: see for yourself...
Characterizing People as Non Linear First Order Components -- members.aol.com/humansandt/papers/nonlinear/nonlinear.htm
Software Development As A Cooperative Game -- members.aol.com/humansandt/crystal/game/index.html
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