Energized Work | agile in action

Debugging Grails Database Performance

Simon Baker — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:28:24 PST

Why does that page take so many seconds to load? It never used to!

Grails for Hipsters

Simon Baker — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:09:57 PST

Pirate Rob demonstrates how to integrate a curated selection of the latest and greatest technologies to develop a cutting edge Grails application that will be the envy of 'scenester' developers everywhere. With vert.x for asynchronous server side code, websockets for pushing content to the browser, Angular for a slick one-page app experience and Phantom for headless end-to-end testing.

Governance - Friend or Foe?

Simon Baker — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:17:23 PDT

Yesterday at the Agile Business Conference we ran an afternoon World Cafe-style workshop to re-imagine governance. Here’s the deck.

The Energized Work lab is moving aboard ship

Simon Baker — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:00:00 PDT

Avast! What better day t’announce our news than International Talk Like A Pirate Day. We be vacatin’ our landlubber lab in Holborn and headin’ t’sea aboard HMS President.

Gus Power on the future of software development at The CW500 Club

Gus Power — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:00:00 PDT

What does the future hold for software development? Trends such as agile, mobile, cloud and open source mean IT leaders are wondering how to ensure their software strategy can keep up with the quickening pace of technological change and use the right combination of in-house and external skills. I worry that the prevailing organizational perception of software development and the obsession with tools, processes and developer productivity will destroy the ability to design and engineer software that is actually capable of delivering the value businesses seek to create.

Agile On The Beach: Session: How Are We Doing?

Gus Power — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:31:48 PDT

I’ll be speaking at Agile On The Beach next week (in Falmouth, Cornwall) about managing customer requirements and expectations.

Presenting BuyaPowa at Hacker News London

Tom Dunstan — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:49:04 PDT

In April, I did a talk at the Hacker News London meetup. The talk was about a startup we’re working with called BuyaPowa, and I did the talk with its founder, Gideon Lask. We only had about 10 minutes. Gideon explained the concept of social commerce at the start and took the last couple at the end to explain how BuyaPowa was currently doing. In between I talked about a few things I thought the tech audience at HNL would find interesting. These were things we’d learned while creating the BuyaPowa Web site and back office.

Knowledge nuggets from Kent Beck

Simon Baker — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:27:18 PDT

From the @energizedwork tweet stream with hash tag #rediscoveringkent:

There's gold in them thar hills

Simon Baker — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:00:00 PDT

No Bull: An author's note

Simon Baker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 05:23:39 PDT

No Bull started with an invitation to write a 10-year anniversary piece on the Agile Manifesto for an InfoQ series by the recipients of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award. It ended up being something bigger. In a way it’s my attempt to record my journey over twelve agile years. I wanted to share some of my experiences and, for what it’s worth, how this agile stuff connects in my head at the moment. It’s not meant to be a rallying call. My hope is simply to raise the awareness of where we are twelve years later; to cause people to stop, step back and take in the present - to celebrate what’s good, be clear about what’s bad and why, reflect on the journey so far and think about the future.