Alistair Cockburn

Articles

• The Declaration of Interdependance   view details
  "Lean manufacturing teaches us that having large inventories is inefficient. It also teaches us that the overall efficiency of a process improves as the batch size passed from stage to stage is reduced. Today this has become accepted in most (but not all)

• What Engineering Has in Common With Manufacturing and Why It Matters   view details
  "Software engineering is more like manufacturing than most people expect. Once we spot their similarities, we can apply the lessons learned over the last 50 years in manufacturing to software development. This article picks six lessons to apply to softwar

• I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It   view details
  Webcast: "Agile came from small, colocated projects in the 1990s. It has spread to large, globally distributed commercial projects, affecting the IEEE, the PMI, the SEI and the Department of Defense. Agile now sits in a larger landscape and should be view