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Tag Archives: agile
Cake Solutions – our perspective on building agile teams
Every project team goes through the five stages of team development, as identified by Bruce Tuckman. His theory, called ‘Tuckman’s Stages’ was based on research he conducted on team dynamics. He believed (subsequently born out by experience) that these stages … Read more
The Importance of the Individual in Building Successful Breakthrough Development Teams
The quote by Henry Ford, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success” was something I first saw a number of years ago as a student. The simplicity of the wording and importance in the message struck … Read more
The future of work: bring your own to work
Here at Cake we are passionate about software and application development, but not just from technology and innovation viewpoints. We are curious about the impact upon business, society and the individual, and within this, both work and personal perspectives, of … Read more
Agile and engineering
I shall be delivering a talk on Agile software projects on Thursday in London. As usual, I will present the common-sense rules of agile, starting with It is impossible to have specification that covers every detail of the application you … Read more
Variety Club on Rails
I was tasked to provide additional functionality to the Variety Club site administrative suite. The additional functionality includes an online booking system for events using Google Checkout as the payment service provider and help volunteers manage these bookings and event … Read more
