allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

There is a technique sometimes used in retrospectives, and sometimes called “Taking the temperature” but in truth it can be used in many set...

I’m a big fan of David Anderson’s Kanban method, I always said my brand of “Agile” was heavily infused with Lean before David presented Kanb...

(If you are not a coder please bear with me…. we’ll get to the business point in a moment.) When a programmer finds a class named Manager in...

Nothing exciting but to save me from explaining this again and again…. Yesterday the Agile on the Beach conference committee finalised the ...

Question that comes up from time to time: "Does anyone have Agile project which is Six Sigma? How these two things Six Sigma and Agile ...

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...