Articles for category: Delivery

May 6, 2019

Greg Thomas

Keep the Routine

If you want to see change, get a routine, if you want to be change, never break that routine. Once you break it, you’ll need to start all over again. Don’t change the world with your new routine, just change an hour of it, each and every day. And stick to it, the most powerful tool you have at your disposal is to stick with it. Put post it notes everywhere so you never forget to do it no matter how busy you get. And don’t let anyone break it for you. If your new routine is going to force

May 3, 2019

Greg Thomas

It gets Fuzzy in the Middle

Of course it does. We start with great intentions, we know where we want to end up, but despite our best efforts, it always gets fuzzy in the middle. Code takes longer to build than what we planned for. Customers have many more questions than we imagined. The team changes a few times during the iteration. Processes need to be reworked to reach our final target. Whatever it is, when we look back, it’s always Fuzzy in that middle part where Delivery takes over. Sadly, this is also where we get the most frustrated with progress as it seems like

May 1, 2019

Greg Thomas

Leaving the Race To First Behind

If you don’t come first are you going to quit? If you are the second best presentation to your client is it time to throw the towel in? If you don’t get the gold star on your code review is it time to look elsewhere because someone is better than you? If you don’t finish your work as fast as someone else should you pack up and go home? Probably not right? You’re still going to wake up tomorrow, you’re still going to put out your best work and you’re still going to try to do whatever it is you’re

April 30, 2019

Greg Thomas

SMP: Ep 30 – The Return of the Interview

We’re going back into the vault, this is the full circle on our previous, previous episode of Interviews. I recently did a talk at a high-school on interviewing and what students need to prepare for.  This made me think even more about all the things they are not being taught so I made sure to get them all out in this cast. And – Episode 30 – Milestone!

April 29, 2019

Greg Thomas

At least it’s not Snow?

Before it was too much snow. Now it’s too much rain. Soon it will be too many bugs. Then it will be too hot. Thereafter it will cool off too soon. Followed by the mornings are getting colder. And then it’s getting darker too much faster. And then it will start snowing again. The beauty of a cycle is that you know how it’s going to work and what is going to come next. The oddity is that we consistently forget what stage we just passed through while we are focused on the current one’s downsides while begging for the

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