Month: November 2022

November 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Anticipation of the Event

Event planners have it tough.  They put everything they can into making something go off smoothly, perfectly, without a hitch and along the way something always goes wrong or off the rails. The secret is that they never let anyone know that something has gone wrong, they never show it on their face, they roll with it, they recover and they move on.  There is a degree of experience worked in there as well as they look for cues to respond to in advance when they are about to happen. We all need to channel our internal event planner on

November 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Wrong Comparisons

Oftentimes we compare the wrong things. They are better than us, but they are always three years ahead of us in development. Your code is faster than mine, but yours also does less. Your team works better together, but our projects are also different. The list goes on Infinitum, but the question remains the same – if you are comparing apples to oranges, they will always be different. We think the time is spent in the comparison, but where it should really be spent is ensuring that we are comparing the correct things.

November 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

One Backlog to Rule them All

If you have multiple backlogs, which one does your team know to pull through? How do they know which one is prioritized higher than the other? How do they know which items that cross backlogs might be different than the others? Keep your backlogs simple so that when your team starts to pull from them, they know they are pulling from the right place at the right time, working on the right thing. Essentially what a backlog is supposed to do.

November 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

Your Sprints can be Better

If you don’t think there is any room for your sprints to be better then you’ve fallen into the trap where you think everything is perfect, everything is wonderful, everything is amazing and you could never do any wrong ever, ever again. And as soon as you read that statement you probably thought – “Well they aren’t that great, the board needs some tweaking, I feel like we are sometimes missing items that fall into this exception category and our estimates aren’t always there when I need to report them up to the rest of the company, etc, etc, etc.”

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