Show the work
Work in progress is visible to you at all times: the board, the repository, the test builds.
The workshop
A studio that leaves the door open
Workfoundry Ltd is a software studio in East London. We make mobile apps, websites and interfaces, and we make them collaboratively: your people are welcome at every stage, from first sketch to the final release.
Why work this way
Software built behind closed doors often arrives finished but foreign. Nobody inside the organisation quite knows why it works the way it does, so every small change needs the original supplier. We think that is a poor deal.
When your team joins design sessions, reads pull requests and pairs on a feature or two, the finished product makes sense to them. They can fix small things, judge larger ones, and brief future work confidently.
What it is like
Practical. We run short working sessions instead of long presentations. We share screens rather than slide decks. Questions are welcome at any level: if someone wants to know what a database migration is, we will show them one.
You will also see our mistakes and how we correct them. We think that is healthier than pretending software is ever built in a straight line.
House rules
Explain the choice
Every significant decision comes with a short written reason you can read later.
Teach as we go
If your team wants to learn a skill, we make room for it in the plan.
Leave it tidy
Clean code, clear notes and handover documents, so nothing depends on us.