Big Day for Spreets

Blog on June 26th, 2010 4 Comments

As many of you know, we’ve been helping Spreets get started, so we’re very excited to announce today that Spreets has launched to all Australian capital cities. Read the media release below for more info: Group buying site Spreets receives $2 million investment and joins forces with brandsExclusive in new billion dollar industry Australia’s first [...]

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Agile & Obsessive? Live in India? Come work with us!

Blog, Business Operations on May 13th, 2010 No Comments

Over the last few years our team in India has grown from a couple of people to a team of about 50. We’ve got passionate Ruby on Rails developers building e-commerce solutions and Zend PHP teams building everything from group buying platforms to web 2.0 solutions for the farming community. We’re now looking for passionate [...]

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Give your Lean Startup a Demo Driven Deadline

Blog on April 24th, 2010 No Comments

Focus: If you want to drive yourself to get your minimal product out fast, then give us a date within 6 weeks and you can demo it at the Pollenizer office in front of our team and some of our partners/investors. One of the challenges that we see regularly is people working on startups for [...]

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Organisational Maturity and Coaching Models

Blog on March 12th, 2010 1 Comment

The past year I have had the chance of coaching great teams around the world, helping them become Agile and produce better products, have more fun while doing it and help them rediscover their passion for software development. I’ve come across a few interesting situations which made me reflect a bit about the correlation between [...]

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For Startups: Vision and Focus, Capulet and Montague

Blog on October 23rd, 2009 1 Comment

‘Sr. Bee meets Sr. Sunflower‘ by robstephaustralia via FlickrImage is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Some quick thoughts on one of the hardest things to do as an entrepreneur (or intrapreneur) – holding both a big vision and a brutal focus in your mind at the same time. They sound like contradictions and [...]

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WIP: How Pollenizer Works

Blog on July 7th, 2009 No Comments

A year and a half ago we created a violent, yet exciting and creative chemical reaction from the coming together of start-up veterans from Australia, India and Europe. Now we are reflecting internally to try to describe what it is that we actually do. I want to share this with you guys not as a [...]

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Visual communication in agile projects

Blog on February 18th, 2009 No Comments

Earlier today, I received this picture (click on the thumbnail since it’s quite large and needs to be seen in its full splendor) from Xavier, a friend that’s a practicing Agile Coach and PM in Belgium. Xavier has just started a fantastic blog on visual management for agile teams, you should definitely check the first [...]

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