We’re very pleased to receive this year’s Gordon Pask Award. 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.
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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.