Gus Power and Kris Lander of EnergizedWork just presented ‘No Excuses: Concept to Cash Every Week‘ at QCon London which highlights the manner by which development is executed within the EnergizedWork stable.
It’s worth reviewing the slides (available via ‘No Excuses’ link above) to get a sense of how using such methods can help achieve the following
- Create and maintain an energized, engaged and fun development team
- Getting into production fast, deploying to production weekly
- Total test coverage ensures minimal ongoing production problems
- Continuous QA, customer/product owner feedback assures fitness to requirements
- No bug databases means -> kill all bugs immediately, ALWAYS
- Continuous environmenting: the dev team creates, administers and supports all environments whether test, QA or production (why? No silos, eg: systems admin team)
- Tracking your released features delivered against fiscal metrics
- Showing the client that project is maximising profit with each weekly release and thus keeping them excited
Well done guys and keep it real 
(And see you in BC again next year hopefully for more snowsports fun!)
