I am really interested to hear any ideas or working practices that can be adopted to encourage our team of developers to write more code. A little background here is involves a team of varying disciplines, experience and qualities and the nature of the work has a large focus on bug fixes and business logic / data validation over writing lots of new greenfield code or even refactoring. We are attempting to move to a more Agile philosophy and really what would be great is to hear any ideas that can be sold to the team and / or the business with the aim of:

1. Writing more new code to improve experience, abilities and increase exposure to newer and emerging patterns and practices.
2. Energizing the effort of the team and inspire.
3. Encouraging wider input of new ideas, patterns and practices from the team as a whole.

I would be very interested (and grateful) to hear any ideas or examples of ideas that can help here.

Thanks!