Articles for category: Delivery

January 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Same Same

It’s tempting to redo a project that is similar to what you just built in the same way, to copy, paste and update. It’s tempting to pass this on as something new because it looks a little different on the outside but is the same on the inside. It’s safer to do things the way they were done before because that worked then and should work now. It’s easier to not take any risks because then if anything goes wrong, no one will blame you. All these things make delivering the similar projects in the same way that much better.

January 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

C'mon, it's Agile

Here’s how Agile get’s a bad rap… We don’t have to plan. We don’t have to think about what we want to do. We don’t have to write anything down. We don’t have to look past the current sprint. We don’t have to be worried about what we deliver. We can change what we are doing and who is doing it every day. We don’t need to worry about what we deliver. All wrong, all the time. Agile isn’t a reason to avoid doing the hard work, it’s an idea, a concept, a framework to breakdown the hard work and

December 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

Software Sales Demo are a Thing

When working with a new platform or trying to demo something to a customer there are two elements that will make your software demo sing; Customizing it to their industry, their business, their needs. Showing them data of what can happen over a period of time. And yet, we never want to do this work. A few weeks ago, I was working on a customer demo and wanted to populate the system with some data to demonstrate historical trends and analysis. There were “tools” available for this, however no matter what I did, what configuration I had, they wouldn’t work,

December 9, 2019

Greg Thomas

Now What do I do?

If you don’t know, then you haven’t been paying attention. It’s that simple. If you have to ask, then you’ve been ignoring what’s happening with the rest of the team and have only been focused on your own work. At the end of the day, it’s what the team delivers that matters, not what the individual does. Whether it’s agile, scrum, waterfall, nimble, bimble or my favourite – simple – it’s all a measurement of what the group accomplished and what the group delivered – right down to how work is prioritized and organized. With that in mind if you

December 4, 2019

Greg Thomas

But in what Format?

When the format is more important than the content of what we are creating, we have started down a path that is hard to recover from. It’s hard to recover because the writer worries more about the look than the content because that is what they have learned they will be judged on first before anything else. As the adage goes, Content is the King (and the Queen, and the rook, and the bishop and the knight… only the pawns are the look). A better way to adopt this problem set, to get people focused on content before looks. Sit

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