Month: October 2020

October 22, 2020

Greg Thomas

Why Agile Implementations Fail

Agile is hunky-dory implementation of software development. If it’s on your resume it suddenly means you have experience at “developing software quickly”. Even though you might have been doing this for years without Agile, not it means you are following a process to getting things done. However, Agile can still be slow, it’s not an immediate switch that all of a sudden people start going faster. Unless you are a brand-new team who are all eager to jump onto a methodology and throw everything else you know out the window, the onboarding to it is not as easy as you

October 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

Sprint Retrospectives During the Release

You wouldn’t change your oil while on the highway. Or change the materials in a house half-built with a few days to go. Or start teaching a new lesson when the first one isn’t finished. Or turn on the dishwasher when only a few dishes are in it? Then why are you running a Sprint Retrospective while your team is working on delivering said work? They are in a different mindset, a different zone, a different area of delivery altogether. Wait until the sprint is over, give people time to collect their thoughts, then ask the questions that you want

October 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

Rethink the Problem

Factors change. Results come in. Experiments succeed and fail. What you thought you knew was the problem, might not have been the problem at all. Don’t get frustrated or even worse, give up. Step back, rethink the problem, approach it from a different angle. Move forward.

October 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Hard Conversations are not Getting Easier

In fact they are getting harderer and the more you keep ignoring them, the more you keep brushing them under the rug, the more you keep pushing them to the side, the harder it gets to have the conversation. When everyone was on-site (that sounds better than on-premise) you could linger in the conference room and have that side chat to discuss the outcome of the meeting and next steps. But that rarely happens in the remote world, everyone is in a hurry to jump off the call and head to their next one. For this reason, this is why

October 18, 2020

Greg Thomas

How to Find Your Purpose… Again.

Finding what you want to do is a moment of clarity that you won’t soon forget. It is a brief moment in time, punctuated by the work you do. It brings fulfillment and understanding that you never thought possible. And then, for some unknown reason, perhaps it’s the work you are doing, perhaps it’s everything else going on in your life or maybe it simply wasn’t your purpose to begin with (and you didn’t know it). Whatever the reason though, you lost your purpose. So now you need to find it again or find a new one. And you start

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