Building Lean teams without compromise and helping executives understand them.

Simon Baker and Gus Power have had a profound effect on the way the people around them view agile methods in the real world. They’ve repeatedly demonstrated that their No Compromise, No Excuses approach consistently creates and maintains exceptionally high performing teams that deliver high quality software, and within the same kind of dysfunctional organizations that most of us work for.

Through their study and application of lean accounting they have created a financial system to support going from "concept to cash every week". It makes visible the consequences of business decisions and the real cash value of a project as software is released every week. The CFO of a major UK company told them he’d never seen a project before where he could see so clearly what he needed to know.

There are no secrets behind their success – they use the techniques they teach with commitment, applying their values and raw common sense with rigor, and they invest in growing the skills of the people they work with. They attract tremendous loyalty from their teams. Simon and Gus have shown us how much we can expect to achieve by holding to the values of the Agile movement. Follow Gus and Simon’s blog at http://www.agileinaction.com