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by Simon Baker.
Original Post: A new start at Energized Work
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My company, think-box, will be winding down in the coming weeks or months but you can't get rid of me that easily. It's purely an administrative move to make room for the new company, Energized Work (logo concept to the right), which I've co-founded with Gus. We've worked together over the last year and it's simply been awesome. We've achieved some great things, experienced the highs and lows on some rough rides but we've always had lots of fun. We work extremely well together and the combination of our skills, experiences and approaches is entirely complementary and is proving to be very effective. The Web site is under construction but there's a holding page up with some introductory blurb. This blog will continue, as will Gus' wiki, but they'll both be re-branded eventually.
Our goal is to work together at clients and we also want to pursue other avenues too:
Consultancy: Are you confident in meeting and exceeding your customers' expectations? Is your organization struggling to compete because you're unable to respond to customers' requests quickly with high quality software? Do people in your organization understand your vision and do they work towards it? Is your organization sufficiently transparent that you know what's actually happening inside it? Are decisions getting made or being made too slowly in your organization? Does the structure and culture of your organization provide a habitat where people can work effectively and freely, be creative and achieve results without impediment? We can help you deliver value to your customers continuously by reshaping your organization along product streams and growing cross-functional product teams that share your vision and are capable of responding quickly to meet customers' needs. We can show your business people how to maximize return on investment and we can work with your financial people so that you have more choice and flexibility in how you fund your product portfolio. We'll show you how to collect and report empirical data and maintain total visibility so that you will always know the status of your projects. We'll help you focus on leadership and collaboration rather than management and process, and transform your working environment so that people are empowered to self-organize and feel safe taking responsibility and making commitments. This will give you the confidence to push the decision-making to the people doing the work so they can deliver more value and increased quality with a sense of urgency.
Coaching: Is your product development realizing your vision? Are your products providing the value you expect? Are you delivering the highest value features to your customers at least every month? Do your teams need a tune-up? We can coach your teams to deliver value and high quality reliably and in a repeatable manner, improving their throughput, raising their morale and setting them up for success. By pairing with your people we can show them how we use agile practices and lean thinking, and demonstrate how our values and principles help us to do the right thing. We can help them develop the necessary skills and discipline to deliver working software with fewer defects, again and again.
Start-up Enablement: Are you a start-up and need to get something out there quickly? We can bootstrap your product development so that you can begin achieving business milestones while you're still recruiting. Hire our team to be your team. We can get your product into production early and incrementally, gaining visibility for your company and earning money for your business. And then, as your business takes off, we can gradually handover product development to your team, leaving you with a high quality solution to build on.
SWAT Team for Hire: Do you need a product developed without the organizational overhead of forming a dedicated team? Do you need some extra bandwidth to explore product concepts and new revenue streams? Or do you simply need some creative and innovative solutions from experienced professionals? We can provide an experienced ready-to-go agile team with a proven track record of delivery, that has all the skills and can hit the floor running, to work at your place or ours.
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