Articles for category: Delivery

September 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Building an API

An API (Application Programming Interface) is the gateway to your application and data. It’s the path by which an ecosystem and grow and evolve around your product offerings. Or wonder why they even bothered. That last line might seem harsh, good, it’s meant to be. API design is not a trivial endeavour as you are no longer thinking about how the team inside of the company will access your software, but rather how the entire planet will access and consume your information. If you are designing an API, here are some guidelines to help in that endeavour. What is our

September 7, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Giveback

Last week I was reflecting on all the amazing topics and conversations we have had over with Remotely Prepared and all the great (and appreciative) feedback I have had on Code Your Way Up. To say that it has been easy launching both before and during a pandemic would be an understatement. Through that, I have found the “real work” to occur after what I look back on as the “fun work” which is the building of the product – the podcast, the book. The “real work” being getting it out there and getting the messages for both to connect

September 1, 2020

Greg Thomas

Demos Gonna Break

I spent close to 2 hours recording demos this morning. I finished the first one (about 25 minutes in length), when my last failure case blew up. I could have sent it out as is, but it would have been a bit empty handed seeing as how we the first 23 minutes were a lead up to the last 2 minutes. I feel like this is a lot of 2020 right now. Putting in a lot of planning, trying to get things perfect, hoping everything lines up and than BOOM – you’re two steps back trying to figure your way

August 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Project Event

There is a moment in every project where an event occurs that stops the project in it’s tracks. It can be a good thing – “we don’t need to do this” or a bad thing – “someone is asking us to stop”. Whatever it is, it is a defining event in the delivery of the project and the team. What happens in that time defines how the project will succeed, where it will go and what the team will be able to accomplish. It is the event, it is the moment that will be looked upon in the project that

© 2025 Rambli by Greg Thomas. All rights reserved.