allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

One of the important, but often overlooked, roles in any software development is the “needs” guy. I put it that way to be as general as pos...

Programmer, software engineer, software developer, coder, developer, code-monkey, build engineer, tester, software tester, test automator, t...

A while ago I tried to answer the question “How many software teams are using Agile?” . My best efforts put the answer at somewhere between...

I recently stumbled across Les Hatton's site . I've owned one of Les' books for probably over decade ( Safer C , a classic) but...

I presented to the BCS PROMS-G group (Project Management Special Interest Group) last week. This was an expended version of my Jax London t...

I presented to the BCS PROMS-G group (Project Management Special Interest Group) last week. This was an expended version of my Jax London t...

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...