allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

In the software development world a number of common management maxims need to be reversed if one is to be an effective manager. Those who m...

There are a few words of Japanese that have permeated the lingo of Agile and Lean folk - Kanban and Kaizen being probably the two best know....

Creating a new software application… is that a glass is half-full or a glass is half-empty thing to you? Does the thought of actually empl...

Failure is good. We learn from failure. Failure is learning; the information content of a failure may be more than the information content o...

“When does the business need it?” is far more important than “When will the developers have it ready?”. Business needs should drive schedule...

Several things have been happening in the #NoProjects world of late it seems fitting to record these things here. As mentioned recently Eva...

Sharp eyed readers of my management mini-series will have noticed I referred to managers doing administration several times, Peter Hilton ...

No sooner have I said I’m closing off my management mini-series than things come to light that need saying! Arrh well, I did say it wasn’t ...

#NoProjects continues to attract an increasing amount of attention. In fact the idea now has its own NoProjects website - many thanks to E...

“Some things can never be spoken Some things cannot be pronounced That word does not exist in any language It will never be uttered by a hum...