Alistair Cockburn is the author of the “Crystal” family of people-centred methods.
Alistair is a “methodology archaeologist” who has interviewed dozens of project teams worldwide trying to separate what actually works from what people say should work.
Crystal focuses on the people aspects of development – collaboration, good citizenship, and cooperation.
Crystal uses project size, criticality, and objectives to craft appropriately configured practices for each member of the Crystal family of methodologies.