allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

At this year’s EuroPLoP conference I presented two more business patterns for workshop review. There are: Customisable Product Customer Un...

“Faster Better Cheaper” - a cry heard often from management types! Or at least engineers think thats the sort of thing managers say. Perso...

Regular readers will know I’ve been pushing Dialogue Sheets as a new retrospective technique. I have observed a number of dialogue sheet s...

Apologies to anyone who was planning on attending my “Objective Agility: What does it take to be an Agile company?” talk at Skills Matter t...

For a little while now I’ve been quietly talking about my new Agile method. The clue is in the name: Xanpan - pronounced “Zanpan”. Most ob...

I’ve tweeted and blogged about the Cornwall Agile Programme before - something I like to call the ‘Cornish Software Mines’. So it is with...

I’m still experimenting with Dialogue Sheets for Retrospectives ( the download page , and my earlier blog entry ) and so are other people. ...

Earlier this week I had a conversation with Benjamin Mitchell about an entrepreneur he’d done some work with. Benjamin had been suggesting...

One of the things I’ve always found paradoxical about Scrum (specifically Scrum TM ) is its position on management. On the one hand, Scrum ...

I’ve mentioned some of the work I’ve been doing in Cornwall over the last eight or nine months in this blog a few times, and anyone who foll...