Alistair Cockburn

12.5k citations
40 papers · 7.3k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 20
Topics
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (15 papers)Software Engineering Research (9 papers)Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (8 papers)

In The Last Decade

Alistair Cockburn

36 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Alistair Cockburn
Comparison fields: 5 of 147
  • Information Systems 5.4k
  • Artificial Intelligence 1.7k
  • Management Information Systems 1.3k
  • Software 1.1k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 1.0k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Alistair Cockburn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alistair Cockburn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alistair Cockburn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alistair Cockburn based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alistair Cockburn. Alistair Cockburn is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
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Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) (Agile Software Development Series)
69
3 229
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People and Methodologies in Software Development
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The costs and benefits of pair programming
261
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Agile software development, the people factorbreakdown →
667
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Manifesto for agile software developmentbreakdown →
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Structuring Use Cases with Goals
151
9 12
10
Surviving object-oriented projects: a manager's guide
35
11 4
12
Goals and Use Cases.
43
13
Using Goal-Based Use Cases.
32
14 1
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Prioritizing forces in software design
9
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17 1
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A Formalization of Temporal Message-Flow Diagrams
4
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An environment for interactive design of communications architectures
4

About Alistair Cockburn

Alistair Cockburn is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Development, having authored 40 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (15 papers), Software Engineering Research (9 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Software (1.1k citations), Information Systems (5.4k citations) and Computer Science Applications (977 citations). Alistair Cockburn has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Ward Cunningham, D. A. Thomas, Arie van Bennekum, Martin Fowler, K. Beck, Laurie Williams, Steve Adolph, Wayne Citrin, Rainer Hauser and P. Janson. Their work appears in journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and Computer.

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