allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

As some of you will recall, I was one of the Chairs for the European Patterns conference in 2008 and 2009. One of my responsibilities for t...

Continuing on from my opening comments in the last entry, “Why forecasts fail: simple ones are better ” ... The other article which was good...

As regular readers may recall (one of my favourite expressions!)... I regularly ponder my subscription to the MIT Sloan Management Review . ...

One of the ideas I talked about in my Jax London presentation is something I call the Scrum hegemony and it deserves a few notes. In the e...

The slides from my Future of Agile presentation to this weeks Jax conference in London are now online. Although this talk started as a rev...

Time to bring this mini series to an end. I’ve talked about Segmenting Architects Architects who aren't Architecture or Design? As a qu...

Continuing my examination of the architect role I think we need to point out there is not one architect role my several. There is no such t...

Having cleared up some preliminaries, i.e. What is architecture? , we are getting closer to the big question: what do architects do? But I’...

Kevlin Henney’s “97 Things every programmer should know” (the website) project has now advanced from website to book. Yes, you can buy a p...

I mentioned the A word in my last post ( Are there any System Analysts out there? ). As regular readers might have noticed, I have over the...