allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

My younger self would be horrified to hear me say this but, when you develop software you need people who are not software engineers. Don...

Software development is easy. Don’t listen to what people say. I was 12 when I started programming and I picked it up no problem. Busi...

About 5 years after first thinking I could write this book, about four year after I first worked out what the book would look like, and 14 m...

When I was at business school my classmates and I read lots of good stuff about how to run a good company. Books like ‘ In Search of Excell...

I’ve been holding out, waiting until I have the time to write a really great start-the-year blog entry. Well I’ve not had the time and I...

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...