allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

User Stories, half of me hates them, that half of me wonders “What is all the fuss about?” and that half wonders “How did Mike Cohn write 20...

Hopefully most of my readers have noticed by now that I regularly stray from the Agile Gospel, or rather, I have a tendency to go against th...

I recent message from a friend tells me he is putting on his parachute. He can’t take it anymore. He’s tried hard, very hard, to change a ch...

I’m glad to say I’ve just completed a minor update to Xanpan: Team Centric Agile Software Development . The new version is available right n...

Question: What is the opposite of Slack? Or, perhaps a better question: What is the problem to which Slack is the answer? Lots of software p...

From time to time I’ve been heard to say: “ Agile is Punk .” But I’ve never explained myself. I’ve also been heard to say things life “Agile...

For the record… OK, so I don’t loose the URL… Despite my scepticism about Agile in Banking environments, particularly investment banking , I...

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...