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Allan Kelly



Allan Kelly has held just about every job in the software world, from system admin to development manager by way of programmer and product manager. Today he works helping teams adopt and deepen Agile practices, and writing far too much. He specialises in working with software product companies and aligning products and processes with company strategy.

He is the author of three books: "Xanpan - reflections on agile and software development" (https://leanpub.com/xanpan), "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”; the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (http://www.dialoguesheets.com), a regular conference speaker and frequent contributor to journals.

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Bosses are prisoners to the system too

“Our bosses should be here”

“You should tell this to our boss”

Over the years I have heard this again and again, typically when I’m delivering training. I teach my stuff, I’ve people exercises to practice new techniques and ways of working, I inspire them as a group to do something different. Time and again I’m told “Our bosses should hear this too.”

Sometimes I’d say “But your bosses want these chan

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