Articles for category: Delivery

Code Your Way Up is Available Today

Aka – the Neverending Project. If you’ve been reading what I’ve been putting out over the past few years or engaged in some conversations on topics of software and leadership, I have good news – I finally finished the neverending project. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). Full details are available here on all the going ons and how to stay in the loop post-launch but most importantly, I would love to hear from those that read it, what are your thoughts, what resonates, what’s good, etc,

March 5, 2020

Greg Thomas

Out of Date Content

There is a trend happening in software where the documentation cannot keep up. It’s a problem that cannot be solved by AI or technology. With development cycles shrinking to bi-yearly to quarterly, what was written in Q1 about a new piece of software could be outdated by Q3. Even worse, for the developer trying to get a blog off the ground, their content could be invalidated within 2 months of going live. Just today, I was sent a blog from an organization on how to implement a new feature that was written almost a little over a year ago and

February 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

Taking Away Features

There is no worst feeling than finding out the app you have loved for years and years, that has become a part of your daily routine, that does exactly what you want has upgraded itself and now does very little of what you want. Where an action used to take one click, it now takes five, and it’s buried so deep you have to search for it every time. Where the app used to infer or suggest what you wanted to do based on your patterns, it now gives you fifty options to choose from. We all know that feeling

Always Rebooting?

If you are consistently restarting a project, starting a class over, wiping your IDE to start afresh page of code the problem might be in not understanding what you’re actually trying to deliver. When we don’t know what someone wants at the end, we keep adding stuff until it looks like something no one would want – so we REBOOT – and start again. And then we start doing a whole bunch of work, much better this time, maybe a bit more cleaner, but still not exactly what we intended to build – so we consider REBOOTING one more time.

February 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

Apple vs PC vs the old Apple

The PC vs Old Apple ads were a riot – we couldn’t wait for the next one to come out. They perfectly took what we all disliked about PCs and applied it to the new Apple world (still not enough for me to change). If these commercials were to be done today – the message would be completely different – the new Apple vs the old Apple or the new Apple vs PC – as many would agree that both systems are better than the new Apple. But if you’re looking to send a message of change on your next