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Alistair Cockburn is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Agile Software Development & Project Management Practice and a contributor to that Advisory Service. He is also a consulting fellow at Humans and Technology, where he helps clients succeed with object-oriented projects, including corporate strategy, project setup, staff mentoring, process development, technical design, and design quality. He is the originator of Crystal Light methodology and has more than 20 years' experience in leading projects. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Dr. Cockburn was previously the special advisor on project management and development issues to the Central Bank of Norway. He coordinated a critical multisite development project using the ideas he advocates: light methodology; a flexible, alert process; communication; and thinking. In the early 1990s, Dr. Cockburn designed the OO methodology for IBM's worldwide Consulting Group, which is still in use today and is applied to business process reengineering. He served on the IBM US Marketing and Services Architecture Advisory Board, for which he reviewed project plans and designs; is the author of Surviving Object-Oriented Projects; and has written papers and articles for a variety of trade journals.

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