allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

If any of you have heard me speak in a training session or conference you’ll know I am found of quoting Philip Crosby: “ Quality is free! ”....

If I’m being honest, I feel as if I don’t know much about scaling agile. But when I think about it I think the issue is really: What do yo...

I am: a Software Development Consultant who specialises in Agile techniques Or maybe: I am an Agile Consultant who specialise in Software De...

A bit over two years ago I started using the term Xanpan to describe the style of agile I advocate and help teams implement. If it isn’t ob...

Some Agile evangelists are very keen on the idea of “Commitment.” i.e. the development team “commit” to doing an amount of work within a ti...

Now I know some people dislike backlogs - queues, wait states, work we want done - and I buy the argument. But the Scrum Sprint (Iteration...

I was at the Nordic Developer Conference (NDC) in Oslo last week (well, me and about 1700 other people!). I took a risk, I spoke to the ti...

I was in Krakow last week at the PAM Summit of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and International Institute of Business Analysts (II...

How many out there have hear this: “What we want is software which is like Lego, that way we can snap together the pieces we need to build ...

A few months ago Markus Gartner introduced me to the Testing Triangle, or Testing Pyramid. It looks like this: If you Google you will...