allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

A question that comes up again and again from teams is “What is the right size for a User Story?” - a day? a week? three weeks? - 1 point? 5...

Something I’m very conscious of is that I don’t hear much about the downside of Dialogue Sheet Retrospectives . As much as I’d like to beli...

I have started to write up a more useful description of Xanpan . In doing so two things have happened. First I’ve realised that I have an ...

Since I published Scrum, Scrum and Scrum on this blog last week the piece has received a lot of attention and I’ve had a lot of feedback: c...

I’ve come to believe there are three different meanings of the term “Scrum” - well, three inside the software development community at least...

For a while now I’ve been convinced that a lot of “Agile” is about cultural differences. In particular I believe the canonical version of S...

Retrospective Dialogue Sheets continue to be a popular download, and I’m off to Sweden in a couple of weeks to present the sheets at Oredev...

In a couple of blog post, and on other occasions in other places I have talked about there being a Business Analyst working on the original ...

In my last post “ Scrum doesn’t work for us; should we try Kanban? ” I gave a warning about adopting Kanban because Scrum doesn’t seem to w...

Two and a half years ago I published a blog entry entitled “10 things to know about Kanban software development” which has consistently bee...