allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Following on from last blog entry, IT does matter, more important than ever , I’d like to highlight a study that may have slipped peoples at...

Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter” . The argument ...

Preface : this is the third of three articles on the subject of “Principles - in Software Development” and Agile Software Development specif...

Continuing my theme of Principles , I’d like to outline my own principles of “Agile Software Development”. As I implied last time, these ma...

I should have been at Tom Gilb’s annual gathering this week - GilbFest as some people call it. Instead I’m sitting at 36,000 feet somewhere...

Something else that came up at BCS Edinburgh was a question about protecting intellectual property. To be honest, I can’t actually remembe...

As I mentioned in my last entry about Business Patterns for Software Developers , the audience at BCS Edinburgh asked several good questions...

On Wednesday night I was in Edinburgh to speak to the local BCS group - I’m sure you remember the British Computer Society, that no longer e...

For the last few weeks there has been something wrong with the blogger commenting system. Comments get posted but when I come to moderate t...

One of the closing slides in my Agile Foundations course includes a quote from Ken Schwaber saying that only 30% of teams who attempt Scrum...