allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Taking a break from my recent series of blogs about management, I’d like to discuss something that has come up with my current client - OK, ...

The last two blogs have all been about roles and people who are commonly thought of as “managers” in software development but who aren’t - M...

Continuing from my last blog, Managers who aren’t managers , I need to say a bit more about people who aren’t managers but get talked about ...

I’m continuing my theme of management from my January blog ( “It takes an engineer to manage engineering” ) we need to clear up some termino...

Alex Papworth runs a Facebook group (closed) called “Be a Brilliant Business Analyst.” He recorded an interview with me a few weeks back w...

I’ve been meaning to write about the managers and Agile software development for a long time. And, apart from a few asides, I haven’t. Why n...

When I see development teams I expect to see more programmers than requirements people (BAs, Product Managers, etc.), and I expect to see ev...

I’ve done a few agile introductions in my time, in fact I’ve started to feel I could almost write a book entitled “agile by numbers”. So yes...

Just a note to say my latest ramblings “From diseconomies to economies of scale” were blasted out to newsletter subscribers yesterday. If yo...

I sometimes come across teams who are wrapped up in discussing what they should be building. OK, I suppose this is because I hang out with t...