Alan W. Brown

Publications · 1990–2026

Books &
papers

Two eras of writing: first on how software gets built, then on how organisations — and countries — change with digital technology and AI. For everything else, see Google Scholar.

Fig. 1 · Thirteen books across two eras
19902000201020202026
Software engineering Digital economy & AI

Books

All titles are available from Alan W. Brown’s author page on Amazon ↗

Cover of Making AI Work for Britain

Making AI Work for Britain

From strategies to practice

2026 · London Publishing Partnership · open access

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Cover of Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI

Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI

A handbook for digital leaders

2024 · London Publishing Partnership

Cover of Digital Economy Dispatches

Digital Economy Dispatches

Critical reflections on how to succeed with digital transformation in turbulent times

2021 · Unities Press

Cover of Delivering Digital Transformation

Delivering Digital Transformation

A manager’s guide to the digital revolution

2019 · De Gruyter

Cover of Digitizing Government

Digitizing Government

Understanding and implementing new digital business models

2015 · with J. Fishenden and M. Thompson · Palgrave Macmillan

Cover of Agile Software Architecture

Agile Software Architecture

Aligning agile processes and software architectures

2013 · M. Ali Babar, A.W. Brown and I. Mistrik (eds) · Morgan Kaufmann

Cover of Enterprise Software Delivery

Enterprise Software Delivery

Bringing agility and efficiency to the global software supply chain

2012 · Addison-Wesley

2000

Large-scale Component-Based Development

Prentice-Hall

1996

Component-Based Software Engineering

A.W. Brown (ed.) · IEEE Computer Society Press

1994

Principles of CASE Tool Integration

with Carney, Morris, Smith and Zarrella · Oxford University Press

1992

Software Engineering Environments

Automated support for software engineers

with A.N. Earl and J.A. McDermid · McGraw-Hill

1991

Object-Oriented Databases

Applications in software engineering

McGraw-Hill

1990

Database Support for Software Engineering

Chapman and Hall

Selected papers

  1. 2023To Share, Curate or Sell: Three Pathways of Using Data in Open InnovationKazantsev, Ghernes, Zwiegelaar, Maull, Brown and Vorley · Academy of Management
  2. 2023Data sharing for business model innovation in platform ecosystems: From private data to public goodKazantsev, Islam, Zwiegelaar, Brown and Maull · Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  3. 2021Patterns of Adoption of Agile ToolsR. Maull, W. Maull and Brown · IADIS Information Systems Conference
  4. 2020Deep Learning with Wearable-based Heart Rate Variability for Prediction of Mental and General HealthCoutts, Plans, Brown and Collomosse · Journal of Biomedical Informatics
  5. 2019Trust-building in digital health: An exploration of the business case for Blockchain technologiesLopez, Plans and Brown · Technological Forecasting & Social Change
  6. 2018ARCHANGEL: Trusted archives of digital public documentsCollomosse, Bui, Brown et al. · ACM Document Engineering
  7. 2017Appraising the impact and role of platform models and Government as a Platform in UK public service reformBrown, Fishenden, Thompson and Venters · Government Information Quarterly
  8. 2017Distributed Ledger Technology: Applications and ImplicationsBrown et al. · Strategic Change
  9. 2013Agile at Scale: Economic Governance, Measured Improvement, and Disciplined DeliveryBrown, Ambler and Royce · ICSE 2013, IEEE
  10. 2013Toward the Agile Organization: Accelerating innovation in software deliveryBrown · Cutter IT Journal
  11. 2011A Case Study in Agility-at-Scale Delivery (Best Paper award)Brown · XP2011, Springer
  12. 2007The Art and Science of Software ArchitectureBrown and McDermid · International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Chapters

  1. 2021Digital Transformation: Toward a New Perspective for Large Established Organizations in a Digital AgeRoutledge
  2. 2013Experiences with Cloud Technology to Realize Software Testing FactoriesIGI
  3. 2005Models, Modeling, and Model Driven DevelopmentSpringer
  4. 2005Practical Insights into MDA: Lessons from the Design and Use of an MDA ToolkitSpringer
  5. 2004An MDA ManifestoMeghan-Kiffer Press
  6. 2003Collaborative Development EnvironmentsAdvances in Computers 53 · Academic Press
  7. 2000Component-Based DevelopmentAdvances in Computers 46 · Academic Press
  8. 1999Building a System in Pieces: Fundamentals of Component-Based DevelopmentMacmillan Press

Full list on Google Scholar ↗