allan's blog - Agile & Digital Business

Someone asked me this the other day: “Why do devs hate agile?” and as I worked through my answer I thought it worth writing down. There are ...

An old product manager friend writes…. “Just started a new gig as senior product manager at blah blah blah Discovering that scrum teams aren...

If you want to annoy me say something like “Building software should be like building a house…”. To say I’m not a fan of physical building m...

Regular readers will be familiar with my rants against projects and my posts about NoProjects - if not you have a lot of catching up to do: ...

Can you have an epiphany more than once? Well I did. In early January - perhaps the result of all the Christmas drink - I had an epiphany an...

The last few years have been good to me, I’ve enjoyed giving advice to teams and companies and helping people get started with better ways o...

My last entry I discussed some of the lessons I learned coding the Agile on the Beach submission and review system , Mimas (feel free to ha...

The picture above is the documentation for Mimas , the conference submission and review system I wrote for Agile on the Beach . The document...

Some years ago when I was doing my masters degree I was shown a video called “Stockless Production” which was filmed at HP in the early 1980...

Phewww… Agile on the Beach isn’t for another 3 months but in one way its just ended for me. So it is a good time to share a few notes, spec...