Tag Archives: agile

Cake Solutions – our perspective on building agile teams

February 20, 2013 by Ian Brookes | , | Leave a comment

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

December 21, 2012 by Mattp | , , , | Leave a comment

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

December 2, 2011 by Jan Machacek | , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

November 29, 2011 by Jan Machacek | , , , , | Leave a comment

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

July 7, 2008 by Andrew Chalkley | , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →