allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

People I know who know about graphics and data visualisation tell me Edward Tufte is The Authority. I also hear he is a great presenter...

Two new pieces on my website for anyone who’s interested. I’ve kicked off a new series of articles in the pages of ACCU Overload this mo...

Once in a while I get asked my opinion on Open Source Software projects. Personally I think Open Source software (OSS) is great: Apache,...

I’ve been invited to speak to the BCS Project Management Group - PROMS-G - subject is “Why and How to become Agile” . Its rather short n...

Just to finish off my Financial problems with Lean blog post about the financial problems with Lean. I read the second half of How to Ma...

From time to time the dark side of Lean surfaces. On the whole a lot of this dark side is bunk (rubbish), Lean gets the blame for someth...

I was expecting slightly more response to my “ Why managers don’t get Agile ” post last week because this is an issue that comes up again...

I have a short piece entitled “Using patterns to capture and communicate knowledge” in the August issue of Knowledge Board . One small ...

I hear it time and time again: “they don’t understand Agile” - “they don’t get it” - “they won’t let us do Agile” - “they” means managers. ...

A few months ago, at the ACCU conference in April to be exact, I was lucky enough to be given a Display Link adaptor . For those who do...