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Craig Cockburn

Agile Coach, Trainer, Critical Thinking at Siliconglen Ltd

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Thank you for visiting my profile! I am an experienced Enterprise Agile Coach and Digital Leader. Conference speaker on strategy maps using agile practices. Additional experience as a Company Director / Non Exec Director and Agile Programme manager. Based in Scotland

Over 20 years experience as company director including non exec director. Agile consultant, founding committee member of BCS Agile Specialist group. Certified Enterprise Agile Coach. Managing Structured Programmes (MSP) practitioner, Professional Scrum Master. Political experience. Campaigned for more smoke free areas in public places for 16 years.

Highlights:
1989: won award for on-line job matching service
1990: invented a browser for consumers (Wikipedia: history of the web browser)
1992: wrote UK's first guide to getting on-line
1994: wrote the first on-line guide to Scotland
1994: First in Britain's first degree in Object Technology (M.Sc)
2005: First prize winner in UK competition to improve the retail sector
2009-10: Programme manager, BCS "IT Project Team of the year" award.
2011: Listed in Acknowledgements for HTML5.
2012: Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society
2013: Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
2016: Diploma in Digital Business Leadership with distinction. Joint highest mark out of 120 UK leaders
2017: SAFe: Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant SPC4
2018: Acknowledged in Agile book "Agendashift" (Mike Burrows)
2019: Certified Enterprise Agile Coach (IC Agile)
2019: Conference Speaker (Agile Tour)
2020: Red Team Thinking with Bryce Hoffman
2020: Conference Speaker - Agile Tour and Lean Agile Exchange

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Edinburgh, Scotland
Speaking Topics: Critical Thinking, Strategy, Agile, Transformation, Learning, Red Team Thinking

Craig Cockburn Points
Academic 0
Author 74
Influencer 0
Speaker 3
Entrepreneur 0
Total 77

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Company Information

Company Type: Service Provider
Minimum Project Size: $1,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $300+
Number of Employees: N/A
Company Founded Date: 2025

Areas of Expertise

Agile 32.41
Behavioral Science 30.17
Business Strategy 30.55
Change Management
Coaching
Digital Transformation 30.04
Future of Work
Leadership 31.06
Lean Startup
Management 32.66
Product Management 30.84
Transformation

Industry Experience

Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Insurance
Professional Services
Retail
Telecommunications
Travel & Transportation

Publications & Experience

14 Article/Blogs
Thinking Fast and Slow correction
Academia.edu
May 28, 2025
How critical thinking uncovered an error in “Thinking, Fast and Slow” Following consultation with Professor Shane Frederick of Yale’s School of Management, I offer a small correction to Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman’s summary of Shane’s research in his best-selling book: “Thinking, Fast and Slow” Craig Cockburn, Edinburgh, Scotland April 2025. Introduction Critical thinking is the process of analysing available data, assumptions, and arguments to reach sound conclusions, with deference to looking out for common biases behavioural researchers have spent roughly 60 years documenting. This is not a completely new challenge. Calls for greater application date back to Socrates (C. 470–399 BC) and include Devil’s advocacy (1587), Kriegsspiel (1812) and Red Teaming as applied to both business & military decision making (Hoffman, 2017).

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Tags: Behavioral Science, Business Strategy, Leadership

Thoughts for the UK Covid Inquiry
Import from medium.com
May 31, 2024
Covid — Every Story MattersEvery Story Matters - UK Covid-19 InquiryEvery Story Matters is your opportunity to help the UK Covid-19 Inquiry understand your experience of the pandemic. Click the link above to submit your own thoughts.Some thoughts from me (slightly adapted for medium)Why won?

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Unbiased Agile Principles
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May 23, 2022
for healthier organisational outcomesmoving eventually to https://www.unbiasedagile.comBecause we value effective, sustainable, engaged people and organisations.Introduction and context to unbiased agileNote: These principles will be underpinned by further detail and references.SummaryFocus on Cult

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Unbiased Agile
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May 23, 2022
For healthier organisational outcomesValues: Because we value effective, sustainable, engaged people and organisations. With reference to Patrick Lencioni, “The Advantage” — Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business.Simple summary: Focus on Culture, Engagement, Flow, Qua

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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Management

Agile, an unexpected journey
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May 18, 2021
My (and others) agile journeys in a bookHere it is, just published — a journey from the 1980s to the present and beyond. Where do we go next?CoverIt’s out! Huge thanks to Karl Smith for taking the time to facilitate and deliver at amazing speed. Less than 2 weeks from emailing the last ver

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Work from home, office or hybrid?
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May 18, 2021
Answer? None of the above when mandated.This is a framing of a question around how an organisation approaches the new ways of working as we come out of lockdown and we can see the benefits of normal working from home, not working from home in a pandemic trying to home school as well. Also, for clari

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Reality calling! Telephony has changed.
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May 17, 2021
I’m now using a cut down version of this as my mobile answering machine message.HelloThank you for calling my public number. I no longer answer calls on this number. This number is because many websites, including job boards, have a mandatory phone number field and don’t let you past unless you

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Building a successful remote culture
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April 20, 2021
Please take the time to read this: https://robinow.medium.com/building-a-remote-culture-of-safety-ea200f2371fc. It could really help your team, not just in lockdown but whatever form your distributed team has even when lockdown is over. Distributed working is here to stay.It was great to be part of

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Recent agile talks at #agile20reflect
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February 23, 2021
Some talks I’ve done recently as part of the www.agile20reflect.org festivalVisualise the story for teaching and learning in a distributed world February 15 @ 7:00 pm GMThttps://medium.com/media/533cc8951e52618c0d5e58922ce62a43/hrefVisualise and iterate your roadmaps using a strategy map February

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Speaking Engagements from Jul 2020
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July 06, 2020
Speaking Engagements from July 2020Forthcoming speaking engagements — all online16th JulyVisualising a talk, a mind map alternativeAgile Praxis, Heidelberghttps://www.meetup.com/Agile-Praxis-Meetup/events/271350811(UK evening)17th August:Coaching Agile Journeys: Agile Strategy:https://www.e

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Covid disruption. The office as we knew it is gone.
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April 23, 2020
Waterloo, empty.Those of you who have followed me for a while will know that I’ve been commentating on remote working for over 25 years, and I refer you to an article I wrote on remote working in 2017, including references to the benefits for people with reduced immunity and for disease control.H

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

The dysfunction of the 9am standup
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April 22, 2020
9am standups are probably a sign of organisational dysfunction.Why?Easy one: the scrum guide calls them “daily scrums” and in any case “standup” is not disability friendly. If you’re not standing, don’t misuse the term or offend people in wheelchairs. I’ll call them “daily meetings

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Agile Tour London talk on visualising agile strategy.
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February 26, 2020
If you follow my writing on agile strategy and how to visualise this, the video of my talk at Agile Tour London 2019 is now available to view belowVisualizing the Why - Strategy and Roadmaps in Contextbody[data-twttr-rendered="true"] {background-color: transparent;}.twitter-tweet {margin: auto !imp

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

Agile adoption failure patterns
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October 16, 2019
A short list of the main reasons for agile adoption failure, with referencesFrom:Surveys, Consulting groups, individual coaches, newspaper articlesSurveysVersion One 13th State of Agile report (2018)Organizational culture at odds with agile valuesGeneral organizational resistance to changeInadequ

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Leadership

1 Book
Agile an unexpected journey
Polymaths
April 27, 2021
This book is written by Matt Turner, Myles Hopkins, Mika Siitari, Grace Johnson, Gail Ferreira, Craig Cockburn, Sabrina C E Bruce, Evelyn Lekhtman, Mark Walsh and Karl Smith. And asks five basic questions about people Agile Journey. How exactly did people get involved in Agile, what did then learn that galvanised them and propelled them into a career in it? This compendium of Agile Biographies by practitioners expresses their experiences and their vision for the future. Without editing the Agile Practitioners will answer the same five questions listed below. 1. How did you hear about Agile and how did you first get involved? 2. What was your first experience of applying Agile and what did you learn? 3. How has your experience and practice of Agile evolved? 4. Can you share any pivotal work or case studies? 5. Where do you go from here.In my chapter I will show Agile is a journey not a destination this book exposes my journey in Agile since 2003. It will express what I have done, what works, what has not worked and what I have learned. It will show the connection between Agile and Human Centered Design is and how they are symbiotic for the betterment of humanity.

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Tags: Agile, Leadership, Management

1 Video
Critical Thinking
Youtube
November 11, 2024
In person talk in Romania as an invited international speaker on critical thinking and decision support in agile

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Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Product Management

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