Agile’s Leap

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Alistair Cockburn organized an event to celebrate and consider the Agile Manifesto 10 years later. It gathered 33 members of the agile community to discuss what agile has solved, what is unsolvable and what remains to be solved. Here, Cockburn shares his thoughts on what was (and wasn’t) accomplished at the event, and where Agile is headed.

Editor’s Note: This is one in an ongoing series of interviews with thought leaders in the agile community.

Alistair Cockburn is a signer of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He’s as in-on-the-ground-floor as an agilest gets. And he’s witnessed agile principles grow through the roof and stretch around the globe. In February, Cockburn brought together a group of leaders and thinkers to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the manifesto’s writing and to ponder the future of the agile movement.

ProjectsAtWork.com caught up with Cockburn between business trips to have him not only recap the anniversary event, but to share his vision of where agile is headed. Software is agile’s yesterday and today; enterprise is its tomorrow. He says to watch for the big leap and for a new breed of agile champion to emerge.

Since February, what have you done to capture the ideas and enthusiasm present at the meeting?

I sent out a request to attendees, asking them to reflect on the meeting with the following three questions: What …

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