"I love Agile" Agile is great. It’s dynamic, focuses on value, empowers the workforce. Hurrah – up with the Agile manifesto! "I also hate Agile" I hate Agile for a number of reasons, but probably the biggest right now is how it has become the lazy answer to business needs. We need to become Agile. We need to adopt Agile. We need to think Agile. Agile should be our default answer. No, no, no.

If the UK government really wants to be digital, it needs to transform how it taxes businesses today. Without this many long-standing businesses selling viable products will be forced out of business leaving foreign based digital companies to thrive, with jobs and tax receipts dwindling.

DevOps is a movement, anew way of thinking about what 'good practice' is for IT operations and development. This entails changes to how IT Dev and Ops functions use technology, how teams are structured, and how teams act and think.

Here are some watch points for spotting that a transformation programme is doomed. If you spot any of these, beware!

Scrum is a specific process framework for Agile. It is the most popular of many Agile frameworks which have been created over the years. Due to its popularity, a number of features from Scrum are often confused with being core features of Agile when in fact they are only specific to Scrum.