Tuesday, 24 March 2009
A whole lotta fun to be had
Posted by Simon Baker
We're going to have a fun day on Friday to celebrate the success of our most recent client. We'll start the day at My Old Dutch Pancake House for brunch and a retrospective. As we do every week, we'll be seeking some small actions to drive our continuous improvement. In the afternoon we'll hit the Bloomsbury Bowling to shoot some pool and do some ten pin bowling while engaging in a 'beerstorm', i.e. brainstorming fueled by beer. I'm keen to stimulate some transforming ideas that could take us to a whole new place. I have no preconceived notions and I'm excited to see what the team comes up with.
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Friday, 20 March 2009
What makes us tick
Posted by Simon Baker
We're working on a new Web site and we did some concept work to develop a brand that captures what we're about here at Energized Work. You'll see the visual brand when the site launches but I wanted to share what we've come up with on how we see ourselves. If you read this blog (or know us) you'll know that we're pretty straight-talking and say what we mean. When we wrote The Energized Way to describe how we work we used short, sharp, punchy statements. We wanted to use the same approach to capture our ethos. Here's what we came up with:
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Thursday, 12 March 2009
No excuses
Posted by Simon Baker
Yesterday at QCon London, Gus and Kris talked about how we at Energized Work get from concept to cash every week. It's a simple message really.
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Sunday, 8 March 2009
Actions from retrospectives
Posted by Simon Baker
A retrospective is pretty pointless if you don't come out of it with an action, which you then take in the next iteration. An action should be small, specific and clearly defined on a card; can be taken immediately; starts something new and good, rather than stops something bad.
