Alan is what they call passionate about technology and software development. In his time he's done consulting, worked for large corporates, done product development, been part of an R&D/labs team and even done the startup thing. He's work in small teams and large, using methodologies that were Agile and no-so-Agile. You can always read his latest thoughts on his blog - skorks.com and he even puts in the occassional appearance on Twitter as @skorks.