allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

I have frequently written about #NoProjects on this blog. In fact if I look at the entries which mention #NoProjects the first one is late 2...

​From time to time questions show up in my mailbox from people asking questions. I like to post the questions and answers here in the hope t...

This isn’t a happy story, it has no happy ending, I suffered personally, its personal but I want to share. Its about trying to solve a pro...

In The Living Company (one of my favourite business books, highly recommended) Arie de Geus describes the Mayor of Rotterdam Problem, it go...

This is the first blog post of 2017 so something a little different, a little more personal, a little speculative… I’ve written before abo...

The end of the year is almost here, a year which has seen two mini-series in this blog: Management and Agile ERP . Well, I was catching up ...

This blog has been a lot quieter in the last couple of months than normal. My energy has been going elsewhere. If you would like to catch up...

(This is refactored version of my earlier blog post Technical Liabilities and not Technical Debt - its shorter and contains few of the refe...

My l ast - frustrated - post finished with this line: “banks are collecting technical debt the way they used to collect sub-prime” I’ve alw...

I’ve had a very frustrating morning, and it all comes down the failure of bank IT systems - particularly a software release failure at HSBC....