allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Earlier this week I was the guest of a large bank in the City, OK Canary Wharf actually. They had their own little internal Agile conference...

The Agile on the Beach 2014 conference is fast approaching and there is every sign that it will, again, be sold out. Which means, in the d...

“Gentlemen, you are getting married. You go to the best tailor in town, and you say: ‘I’m getting married, my bride is beautiful, make me lo...

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...