allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

In the summer my training and consulting business gets quiet. That allows me to take some holiday and to pursue some stuff I don’t get much ...

During August I'm in holiday mode, so by way of a change from blogging here is a podcast. Tom Cagley has been doing podcasts for some...

Regular readers will certainly know about my Xanpan method, a hybrid of Extreme Programming and Kanban. (The secret is: Xanpan contains XP)....

I’ve updated the Team Start Dialogue Sheet . Many thanks to Marta Kolenda who used the sheet with two of her new teams and sent me some feed...

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...