Articles for category: Delivery

November 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

Worrying about the Days of the Week

We put way too much stock into working about the Days of the Week and the “core” hours that go along with it. If I can, I make every day of the week different – sometimes I do a drop-off, other times I take my time, I might take a bus or drive, I go into different offices. There are days I work like a madman from seven till noon and then stop for the afternoon and pick it up in the evening. Other days I got all day and do nothing at night. I don’t miss any deadlines, my

November 27, 2019

Greg Thomas

That Mindless Time

You need those breaks. The space in between. The pauses in what you are doing. The Mindless Time that enables you to stop and think, pull back, think, pause on what you are doing, reconsider what’s next, plan the direction, move forward. Without you’ll always be chasing fires with no goal in mind.

November 25, 2019

Greg Thomas

Progress Bar Magic

Progress Bars in software exist only to keep us entertained while “something” happens. In many cases, they are incorrect and based on the best guess of what might be happening at a particular point in time. They are guesstimates of a calculation that looks at the work to be performed, adds in some variance for connection speed and comes up with a timed estimate for when work will be done. The best project bars keep updating all the time so you know something is being done. The worst ones never change because they are running on the wrong thread and

November 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Status Meeting Replacements

An Open SLACK Channel. A OneNote shared with everyone. A Basecamp project that everyone can post to. A Google Doc that everyone fills in. A text file that everyone updates. A conference call where people jump on if they have a problem but don’t need to attend if they don’t? There are so many options available to you and your team that can solve the problem you are having with people not attending status meetings on time, not having anything of value to say, not needing to hear what others are saying, having problems logging in and on and on

November 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

AI Go Boom

If you’re looking for an example of AI going rogue, you don’t have to go far, you only need to look at Apple and Goldman Sach’s recent problems with their Credit Card Scoring. And let’s not forget Microsoft’s Twitter AI Bot. Is AI bad? No. But like anything, like humans, delivering to the one, to the few, to a group, to a company is a significantly different proposition then delivering to a province, a state, a country, a world. We as humans cannot do it overnight, no matter how much data you throw our way, we simply cannot process it,

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