allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Just a brief note to explain why this blog has been a bit quiet lately. Two reasons. Anyone who has seen me in the last 5-6 weeks will know ...

The slides from my presentation at ACCU 2011 conference today are available online, the Agile Requirements 10 Step Model .

I’m at ACCU 2011 this week, in my lightening talk I publicly unveiled, for the first time, Retrospective Dialogue Sheets . I have been expe...

One of the questions that comes up again and again in the context of Agile work is “How do I know how many people to put on this project?” (...

In two previous entries I’ve reported some interesting statistics and findings - possibly facts - from Capers Jones book Applied Software Me...

As I said in my last blog entry I’ve been looking at some of the academic research on task time estimation. Long long ago, well 1979, two ...

Over the last few months I've been thinking about how people perform estimates when developing software. I've take time - not enoug...

On Monday night I presented “Why Quality Must Come First” at Skills Matter in London, the slides are now online (previous link to my websit...

I’ve been talking about the Agile 10 Step Requirements Model for a year or so now. It has appeared in a few conference presentation and wil...

A question in my mail box: “How does Agile relate to CMM Level 5?” As I started to tap out the answer I thought: this might as well be a blo...