Articles for category: Delivery

November 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

The More You Invest

Fast forward to 2:45 – where Ramsay says to the chef – “They more work and effort you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong.” – I’m paraphrasing out some of the pieces about food but the sentiment is exactly the same in anything you are doing – coding, writing, sports, whatever it is. The more you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong. I love this line because it perfectly captures on line that we must cross between investing wholly in what we are doing and giving up and when the going gets

November 14, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Pre Meeting Meeting

The next time you’re invited to a Pre Meeting Meeting make sure you openly ask if this is the “Pre Meeting Meeting”. For some, this will be a negative deterrent to make this meeting the only meeting that needs to happen and the other meeting is not required. At the end of this meeting, there will be cheers that the second meeting is not required and we have “received an hour back” of our time. The second option, is to ask why both meetings are required to start with? What are we trying to achieve that requires everyone in the

November 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

Constant Restarting

If you were to go on a 5 hour drive, pull over every 10 minutes, shut your car off, restart it and get back on your journey, the journey would inevitably take you that much longer. The constant, stopping, starting, stopping, restarting will eventually slow you down, frustrate you and make you question what you are doing. (See parents on their first journey with kids who are not used to the constant stopping and starting and the chaos that ensues – I know – I’ve been there). If you find yourself on a project that is continually stopping and starting,

October 29, 2019

Greg Thomas

We Need to be Agile

Means nothing. This is the same as saying any of the following. “We need to be marketing.” “We need to be business.” “We need to be coding.” All this statement is, is a clear identification that you don’t know what the topic means, why you feel it and what your team needs. Some better statements… “We need to deliver software faster.” “We need to bring our product managers closer into the fold.” “We need to run test cases concurrently with development.” The above statements identify the particular need that needs to be addressed and what direction the team should look

October 23, 2019

Greg Thomas

Begin with Sprint 0

You don’t start with 1, you start with 0 – Sprint 0. Where you iron out the bugs on how things are going to work. Where you put the team together and see them in action for the first time. Where you proof out the foundation and realize what you have and what you are missing. Where you work with the team to get the requirements for the next iteration. Where you figure out what does and doesn’t matter. Where the seeds for delivery and what everyone will do when certain situations is planned out. Sprint 0 is not about

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