allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

There are many, many books about software development. The technical ones alone (e.g. Java, C++, Apache, .NET, etc. etc.) take up meters...

Despite the fact that I have deliberately taken a couple of months off since the end of my last assignment I’ve been keeping very busy. ...

Tom Gilb sent me a link to this presentation from Ryan Shriver about the use of Scrum with Tom’s EVO techniques. Very interesting, and...

It is difficult to say anything bad about Agile Project Management with Scrum (Schwaber, 2004). It is a short book, lucid and easy to r...

In my last blog entry promised to discuss a second piece from the MIT Sloan Review . In many ways I find Avoiding the IT Alignment piec...

Regular readers might remember me agonising last year when I subscribed to a pretentious business journal. Well my year’s subscription ...

The Financial Times carried a piece on Wednesday entitled ‘ Agility: Flexibility takes over from planning ’. It starts off about agile b...

I have spent the last two days at the XP Day 2008 conference here in London. A very good conference and highly recommended. Unusually ...

I have posted another set of business strategy patterns on my website . These patterns were reviewed at EuroPLoP 2007. It took me a whi...

This is the second of two follow ups replying to some comments on the blog. What’s interesting about this one is that its from someone w...