allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Last weeks Economist contained an interesting piece on German exports ( subscription required .) One of the things that caught my eye was s...

Talking About Machines is a book I have been wanting to read for some time. It is a study carried out by Julian E. Orr of photocopier serv...

There is a debate that surfaces from time to time about the best way to arrange your office. There seems to be a belief that once upon a ti...

Web 2.0 is having some fallout in the business world. It isn’t all about AJAX and Google maps, a lot of the other technologies that are bro...

As some of you may know my pattern Encapsulated Context was selected for inclusion in Pattern Languages of Program Design volume 5. Well, ...

Last week I reviewed Thinking for a Living , I’d like to pick up one or two points raised in this book and discuss them a little further. T...

One of the regular features of this blog is that I review the books I’ve read. Not all of them, on the whole I only really write about the ...

Time for a short indulgence of mine: Art. I’m feel so luck, or so spoilt this year. I was at the Serpentine galley again yesterday for an ...

I had intended to draw a line under my comments on the ACCU conference last week. I’ve got most of it out of my system but I had to return...

At the risk of boring you, my dear reader, I’d like to make a few more comments on presentations at the ACCU conference . Those of you who ...