Articles for category: Delivery

October 10, 2019

Greg Thomas

Incomplete Experiences

Have finished feature are okay. Work that gets pushed off to the next sprint, it happens. Features that get canned, it’s not going to stop. All of these “events” happen that shift the development of what we are doing in the delivery of software. However, what is not okay, is to leave what half of the work has been done in the code that renders a feature partially unusable and/or changes the experience the user has when interacting with your product. When this happens, we deliver an Incomplete Experience to the end-user and that is the worst experience. We force

October 9, 2019

Greg Thomas

(Code)Blocked

You might not know it, but for a while, I was (Writer)Blocked. Couldn’t think of anything new to write. Was tired with what was out there that I was reading. Thought everything that had been said had already been said. Couldn’t get started. It made me think of how many times I sat down to start a new project and stared at the screen as it asked me what I wanted to name my class for the umpteenth time. Did I know what to call it? Did it sound any better than what it was before? Would it really matter

October 7, 2019

Greg Thomas

Half of Nothing

The beginning of a Sprint and/or Release are exciting times, everyone wants to jump on every feature and story and get them done. Mid-way through either though, we start to realize that we are not going to be able to deliver it all and now we are left with a bunch of half-completed work items. It’s not a great feeling and it’s one Agile/Scrum is supposed to eliminate but still, there’s that pesky feeling we all have that “we can do it”. I know it, I get it all the time. I was having this conversation with a project manager

October 3, 2019

Greg Thomas

Always Thank The Team

Because if you’re not, someone else will and when they do, they will no longer be your team, they will now be on this other person’s team. Org charts do not define who belongs to what team, they only define who you report to. We all know whose team everyone belongs to.

October 2, 2019

Greg Thomas

It’s Not the Late Nights

They aren’t going to kill you. Or the early mornings. Or everything in between. None of that is going to stop your idea from seeing the light of day. From getting your code out there into the wild for people to use. The only thing that’s going to stop it, that might kill it, is if you stop working on it because you’re worried about the Late Nights, the early mornings and everything in between.

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