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title: "2 Agile Quotes By Alistair Cockburn"
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> [Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/agile-is-an-attitude-not-a-technique-with-boundaries-an-attitude-has/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/alistair-cockburn-53908_asks_agile-is-an-attitude-not-a-technique-wit_2081284.jpg)

> [Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/focusing-on-skills-communications-and-community-allows-the-project-to/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

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## Other authors on Agile

## More by Alistair Cockburn

> [We get things wrong before we get things right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/we-get-things-wrong-before-we-get-things-right/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

> [Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/agile-is-an-attitude-not-a-technique-with-boundaries-an-attitude-has/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

> [A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/a-well-functioning-team-of-adequate-people-will-complete-a-project/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

> [Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/focusing-on-skills-communications-and-community-allows-the-project-to/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

> [I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/i-consider-c-the-most-significant-technical-hazard-to-the-survival-of/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

> [We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-cockburn/we-are-still-in-the-infancy-of-naming-what-is-really-happening-on/)

[Alistair Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-cockburn/)

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