allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

John Maynard Keynes, the economist once said: "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when th...

I spent a couple of years working in California, in Silicon Valley itself to be exact. Unfortunately instead of getting .com boom I got .co...

A little blog interlude... If you live in London and you’ve not been to the Serpentine Galley then you’ve missed something good. And if yo...

The naming of patterns can be a tricky business. There are all sorts of rules of thumb, one can use, for example: favour and nouns over ver...

I've raced through my latest book, sign of a good book, an interesting read, and most of all, a sign of large print! This month's bo...

Things are cheaper on the internet right? We all know this, no stores to rent, no shop windows to make up, no sales staff - and customers p...

It seems that outsourcing is nothing to do, we regularly hear announcements of companies outsourcing one activity of another. And when I am...

There are two website in my life. First, the one I'm paid to look after as a product manager, this is my company’s, extranet site that ...

I’m not the kind of person to drop things, I might start something and regret starting it but it is unusual for me to drop it part way throu...

It's been about two weeks now since I started this series of blog entries on the subject of innovation. I have given the subject a lot ...