Articles for category: Delivery

March 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

Make the Routine

Here is one thing that has always served me well – make a routine. It doesn’t have to be the same thing day after day after day, it can vary per day, but whatever it is find it. If on Monday you get up early and write, and on Tuesday you get up early and Exercise and on Thursday before you go to bed you do a puzzle, that is a routine, that is the routine that is needed. Routines and their successes are what transfer from one moment to the other. Code Your Way Up is available today for

March 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remember the Actions

Over time, people will forget what was said. It doesn’t mean it will be ignored, but over time what will stand out, will be our actions. Think about all the great leaders and teams you have worked with and do you remember all the witty quotes they said at meetings or when they were compiling their code? No, you remember that they were there, late into the night compiling their code and that they lead those meetings when no one else will. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and

March 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

Escalating Confusion

The scariest thing I see in any software delivery team is confusion. Running out of licenses? That can be fixed. Not sure what development platform to use? You’ll figure it out. The User Interface looks like garbage? We can buff it out. The app is too slow? We can make it faster. But when the team is confused, when the team doesn’t know what they should be doing, or what direction they should be headed? That’s scary, everything else can be triaged, managed or handled. But you can’t triage confusion, you can’t manage it and the only way to handle

March 11, 2020

Greg Thomas

Find your Release Anchor

Anchors are big, heavy pieces of metal that you drop out of a boat when you’re close to land so your boat doesn’t drift away. They keep you in one spot. Too often in a release, where we started is not where we end up. What was originally meant to be the release, is no longer the release and what we are shipping is something vastly different than what was originally intended. For this reason, releases need to have anchors. They need to have that connection to what was intended when the idea for the release was conceived. They need

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