allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

I’ve written many many times in this blog about Dialogue Sheets . On the whole I offer dialogue sheets as a retrospective technique. However...

Last time ( “Waterfall works when…” ) I promised to discuss some of those common objections to “Agile.” (Actually, reading back this this po...

I frequently find myself in situations where someone says something like: “Waterfall is appropriate when…” Some people out there think there...

Many teams have some sort of very regular reviews. I’m not thinking personnel reviews or budget reviews, I’m thinking code reviews specifica...

In this social media age I am often surprised by the reaction to what I say online. Usually this is not by the reaction to what I say but ra...

I’m just putting the finishing touches to a new Requirements Dialogue Sheet for a trial run this week with some guinea pigs (see my Dialogue...

Today I start unveiling Xanpan book 2: The Means of Production - Managing team centric Agile Software Development. Many regular readers will...

Rant on. In software terms quality does not mean walnut dashboards, it does not mean gold plating, it does not mean polishing to perfection....

When I say changes, I’m not saying anything about changes to the sheets themselves. I mean I’ve been thinking about how I make the sheets av...

As most readers will have worked out, I’m not a fan of Scrum Masters. Partly this is because I find it a very mixed up role to start with (s...