allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

First there was Extreme Programming , now it seems we have Extreme Managers – according to the Financial Times .  The mention of Extreme Pr...

It never ceases to amaze me how many bad companies there are in the world.  Companies that provide bad customer service, poor products, trea...

Earlier this week I gave an Introduction to Agile  presentation to a small company in central London.  This was a private presentation so no...

As regular readers will have noticed I Write .  I write this blog, I occasionally contribute to ACCU journals – although I have contributed...

Ever since Nicholas Carr wrote IT doesn't matter there has been a well publicised debate on the real value of IT in modern businesses. ...

I’ve been absent from this blog for the last couple of weeks – small matter of getting married and taking a honeymoon in Thailand.  This was...

I’ve just finished reading Learning for Action  by Peter Checkland and John Poulter (2006).  The book is an introduction to Soft Systems Met...

Back in July I took my latest work on Business Patterns – or Strategy Design Patterns for Technology Companies to give us a more descriptive...

If you can get a copy of today’s FT do so, there is a full page on the Heathrow Terminal 5 project – you can read it online but you need a s...

Software Ecosystem by Messerschmitt and Szyperski (2003) is a book that was recommended to me about a year ago, a book I bought about 9 mon...