allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Regular readers will now that over the last two years I’ve done a lot of work in Cornwall, I jokingly refer to “the Cornish Software Mines” ...

“The second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs” Fred Brooks, 1975 & 1995 Brooks was talking about software designers, archi...

The last two blog entries (“ Scopeless contracts: the problem ” and “ Scopeless contracts: the solution ”) have been working up to this one....

In my last blog entry, “ Scopeless contracts: the problem ” I rehashed all the reasons why including scope in a contract for delivery is a b...

I’ve discussed Agile contract models before and I’ve agued against points based contracts (‘Points based contracts? Just say No’) but the ...

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...