Articles for category: Delivery

June 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Conveying your Message from a Box

Right now, at this moment, you will have a few meetings that will be remote today. You will have to convey your ideas from a box. The more people that are added to the meeting, the smaller that box will become and the greater the work to convey your message from that box will become. You can try talking over the speaker, but those days are long gone. We’ve all had a year of that and we know it doesn’t work. The same powerpoint template that everyone has seen from everyone else? The same action items for what needs to

June 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Elephant in the Zoom

No way can I take credit for this phrase – but I love it. It comes from Wanda Haddock, a recent guest on Remotely Prepared where we talk about Scaling Startups Remotely. She talks about how we are all presence icons (dots) and heads in a square box talking to each other and gives out tips and tricks on what she does to keep audiences better engaged with one another. The complete Interview is available here.

June 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Former and the Latter

Two options to accomplish a goal, the first one and the last one. That’s how we discuss it, two options. We can implement the former or the latter and see how it goes. If you are faced with these two choices, there is always a third, a fourth, a fifth, somehwere between former and the later – that’s where your answer lies.

June 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

Manager Estimates

Manager’s don’t estimate workloads. They challenge the estimate, playing devil’s advocate, poking holes where they see them, but they do so with the goal of helping the developer get better at the task in being more precise. They don’t do it to knock them down or crunch their numbers furthers. There is no mythical person month that makes work go faster. If you want it done right, you put in the time and you get it done. They insulate failure for their team that are providing the estimate. If your Manager is estimating your work for you, chances are the

May 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Pilot Problem

The problem with every pilot is always the date. Always has been, always will be, primarily because when we agree on a pilot we are doing it off of what we know at a certain point in time before the pilot begins. We think we know what we are going to build and be able to get done. By that date. As you approach the pilot, you realize you might not get there – either the delivery was too ambitious, the workload grew, problems arose, people and teams changed, whatever the reason – you’re not going to hit the date.

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