allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

If you follow me on Twitter you will probably have noticed I’ve been writing a series of pieces for The Agile Connection on User Stories. ...

For reasons which don’t always make sense to me I run three websites. The most active is this blog - which is hosted on Blogger, I suppose I...

In the last two posts I’ve discussed some problems with of self-organizing teams and highlighted the need to be clearer about what is actua...

Quick as a flash Eben Halford on Twitter pointed out the mistake with my last blog ( Question for self-organizing teams ). I was mixing up ...

Try this thought experiment. You are a software development manager. You learn about agile and you think it is good. You adopt agile and you...

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...