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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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Agile: not Dead, but evolving

Sorry. I’ve deliberately avoiding the click-bait “Agile is Dead” topic, until now.

For the last few years I’ve delivered a lecture on Agile to Oxford University students and this year the tutor specifically asked me to say something about the state of agile. When I looked over last years slides I see I was already talking about this. I’ll write more about this soon, if you can’t wait checkout “Xanp

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