allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

In my last post ( Inconvenient Truths of Project Status Reporting ) I used an expression which I think deserves highlighting and explaining:...

Long time readers of this blog may recall that I subscribe to the high-brow MIT Sloan Management Review . They may also remember that I’m ne...

This blog post marks the official release of “ Xanpan: Team Centric Agile Software Development ”. You can now buy: Xanpan electronic version...

I’m probably going to upset some people with my spelling here but as far as I can tell, there are two ways to spell the unicellular lifeform...

A few weeks ago I did a presentation entitled “Conway’s Law and Continuous Delivery” - although it was also at some point entitled “Conway’...

‘‘Knowledge work is not easily defined in quantitative terms, . . . To make knowledge work productive will be the great management task of t...

The following is an except from my 2008 book “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile” . I’ve been thinking about this suggestio...

The dissertation/thesis writing season is approaching so I expect the recent set of questions from a student is the first of many. Actually...

On Monday night I delivered a talk at Skills Matter in London entitled “Beyond Projects: or the end of projects and what to do about it.” T...

As regular readers will know I have been working on a new book, or rather a new ebook called Xanpan . Indeed, since I am using the LeanPub ...