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Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game Alistair Cockburn
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Agile experts in software development, UX, security, mobile. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Jim Highsmith 10. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, Esther Derby 9. Agile software development is a cooperative game. There are two words in the definition: game and cooperative. Description: The agile model of software development has taken the world by storm. At least Alistair Cockburn thinks so. There is no doubt that all “agile” is a big fashion with “Scrum” (whatever it means) being ultra-fashion. Read “Agile Software Development – The Cooperative Game” by Alistair Cockburn, Appendix B, page 420. I share his opinion and want to dig deeper. The short version of the Cooperative Game is the following. Topics: Agile Methods / People & Teams / Process Improvement / Project & Team Management. Cooperative Game: Software development can be seen as a cooperative game, where teamwork, good communications, and good strategies are required in order to achieve the goal of the game. And Tom DeMarco – including their books on management topics, like Becoming a Technical Leader, Quality Software Management, Peopleware, The Deadline, and Agile Software Development – The Cooperative Game. Just reading the table of contents promised me that this was not going to be another methodology description. Placed on 01 April 2011, about agile craft. I am not aware of any software development team which is not “following” at least some agile ideas (does anybody really want to look like a dinosaur by running their team with waterfall methods or even in chaos ?). The longer version is in Agile Software Development, a book that I would recommend. At the time, I was looking for a book that goes deeper into the values and principles of agile software development. When the group size becomes too large, and then decide where Osmotic Communication is useful and where it is not. Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, Alistair Cockburn 11. Take, for example, Alistair Cockburn's comparison of agile development to a cooperative game: Software development is a (resource-limited) cooperative game of invention and communication.