Articles for category: Delivery

December 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Rush to Sprint Nowhere

When you sprint, you know where you are going, you can see the finish line, everyone can, that’s why they are all running fast, because they can see it. But when you can’t see the finish line, sprinting early on doesn’t do much help to you for a variety of reasons; You could be running in the wrong direction. You could have the wrong directions. You don’t know what you’ll need to get there. The team might not know what to do when they get there. Even if you know what direction you’re headed in, do you have the right

December 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Your Team Needs to Ship

Not your customer, not your manager, not you, but your team, needs to ship. They need to see their work get out there. They need to see people using it in their hands. They need to hear the pain of users. They need to understand what people are seeing and how they are using. More than anything, they need that achievement, no matter if they crossed the finish the line at a gingerly pace or whether it was a mad dash to cross over, they need to have that feeling that they accomplished something and got it into a place

December 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

Deliver Trust and Honesty

Your releases, your successful releases will always, always be wrapped into those two behaviours. Look back on the releases that went well and think back to all the activities you undertook and you will see they are rooted in these two behaviours. You might not have to think about them when starting a release (great), and if you do, that’s okay too. But know without either/or you have a long hill to climb.

December 11, 2020

Greg Thomas

Who Wants to Be an Architect?

I wrote about Architects in Code Your Way Up but felt the need to digress on the topic a little bit here in a recent post on Dev.to I’ve always found the title of Architect to be a little self-fulfilling, i.e., I want to be a “title” so give me a title that sounds cool and in software, I fear that the term of “Architect” has become one of those titles. The implementation varies across people, jobs and boundaries which serves as further proof to it being a self-generated title (which is a little scarier). If you’re writing code and

December 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

What People Think

On a big initiative, where you have a lot of people reporting to you, where you have a big team and lots of money behind you it’s easy to be swayed into worrying what people are thinking and how they are viewing your progress. But just like with a small project, all that matters is the client. Nothing else.

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