allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

I’m planning on going to SPA London session next week , Tom Gilb is giving a talk entitled “Does real Software Practice Advancement need yet...

As the summer comes to an end conferences start again. At the end of September I’m going to be at the UK Lean Conference (27-29 September) ...

I have been preparing some training material for a company which wants to know more about how Agile projects fail. Fortunately I’ve made a ...

The Agile Journal this month has an article from me this month entitled Dissecting the Product Owner role . This complements my pieces on t...

I’ve finally, about 6 months after everyone else, got around to reading the Software Engineering Institutes report on CMMI and Agile. Entit...

Dear readers, There are getting to be quite a few of you. I know who some of you are but not all of you. And I know a few of you have boug...

At the end of last year, or was it the start of this year, I wrote a blog entry which got a lot of attention: Leave your laptops out of mee...

I recently came across the expression “The Scrum Wall”, as in the expression “Hitting the Scrum Wall”. Its akin to “the pain barrier”, or ...

About a decade ago I worked for a major supplier of financial information in London. The company decided it wanted to improve its software ...

I was at EuroPLoP most of last week - a great conference! And I was busy preparing for the conference for the days before that - because ...