We're very pleased to receive one of this year's
Gordon Pask Award s.
We'd like to thank the people who are part of our adventure: The
crew at
Energized
Work who continue to inspire and challenge us; our clients, who
have been courageous enough to try something different; and our
friends in the agile community who have supported our endeavors.
This award is for them all.
A few years ago we said companies valued the wrong things;
businesspeople weren't accountable for their decisions; software
development lacked craftsmanship; and people weren't empowered to
do the right thing. Our '
No Compromise -
No Excuses ' approach gained us a
reputation as zealots. Yet to us, it was just a decision not to
compromise on the
stuff we think is important .
Craftsmanship, personal discipline and rigor are important to us.
But software is much more than code. We wanted to work with
companies who recognized their software as assets and were prepared
to push the boundaries, to change their organization and culture,
to achieve greater effectiveness.
We're excited by the future - working with new companies, evolving
our use of
pomodoros ,
product
streams and lean accounting to
maximize client profit, and testing our ideas for user-driven
development. Rest assured, we'll continue to challenge the status
quo and we'll continue to learn and improve.
Thank you all very much.
Friday, 28 August 2009
We won the Gordon Pask Award
Posted by Simon Baker - Permalink
4 Comments
congrats from the danube team!
thankyou for your congratulations
Congratulations. Now it's time to figure out how you're going to give back to the international software community. We can help you decide that.
Suggestions are most welcome. Conference-wise, we're doing our InfoQ session at JAOO, Denmark in October and maybe something in the open space at XPDay London. Beyond that I have a preference for doing something different to engage with people interested in hearing about our methods. Perhaps engaging discussion (and questions and answers) at user groups like xtc is the obvious thing but I'd like to do more than that.