allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

I’m sitting on a train from York so it seems a good time to share my train-leaving-the-station metaphor with the world. In truth, if you’ve...

I presented my “BA Role in Agile Software Development” talk at Skills Matter last night. There was a good turnout and the folks who came t...

There is a piece by me on todays InfoQ - The Limits of Agile . I’m interested to here your comments.

I was down at Heathrow earlier this week, not taking a plane but giving my “The Role of Business Analysts in Agile Teams” talk again. It ge...

By way of wrapping up my velocity mini-series ( Two ways to fill and iteration , Filling an iteration too well , and Velocity Targeting and ...

Continuing my mini-series on filling an iteration , velocity and all that I want to flag up a big big mistake: Velocity Targeting . Which ...

I want to stick with the theme of “how do I fill an iteration?” for a couple more entries. There are a lot of little nuances here, and wha...

The fixed length iteration is a key part of most Agile methods. But the question is: how do you know what (i.e. how much) to put in the ite...

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I was recently out in Oslo teaching a course on Lean software development . One of the points I make ...

Slides from my “Falling off a log theory of software development” talk to Software East are online for download. These slides only give a s...