allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Regular readers of this blog will know I hold Product Managers in high esteem. When developing software the presence of Product Managers...

After ACCU last last Thursday I was in the pub with Bronek Kozicki - and many others. The subject of system re-writes came up. This is...

I spoke at ACCU London last night. I little unusual because I’m usually the one organising the talks not giving them. But I’m not just ...

I’ve just finished reading IT Success! (yes, there is an exclamation mark there) by Michael Gentle and I’m glad I did. Before I write o...

Over the last few months there has been a reoccurring topic at any gathering of IT workers in London: What does the turmoil in the financ...

With my last blog entry, The Location Myth , I realised I am slowly building up a list of software development myths I don’t believe in: ...

The internet, we were told, would make location irrelevant. But it hasn’t. Some examples. • My brother lives in the UAE so we talk by p...

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...