Articles for category: Delivery

January 7, 2019

Greg Thomas

Lead the Team or Deliver the Code

Which do I do first? Which do I focus on more? Do I Lead the Team on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Code the other days of the week? What if someone has a question on a Wednesday do I push it to Thursday? You do both – it’s not an Either/Or, it’s a Both/And equation.  We need leaders who will only lead in Software about as much as we need coders who will only code. Do both, realize you need to both, figure out what works, don’t compartmentalize – find the bridge between the two and make it work. If

January 4, 2019

Greg Thomas

Same Old, Same Old

Aren’t the days when you come in to work that much more exciting when they start off totally different? There was some kind of emergency the night before that has reset everyone’s morning? A server or tenant went down which has taken down a key server and forced you to work different today? Someone isn’t in and you need to cover for them in a key meeting? It doesn’t always have to be the Same Old, Same Old and it doesn’t always have to be triggered by other people or factors outside of your control. Its just easier that it

January 3, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Neverending Delivery

I have a project, it’s been going on for a few years – it’s filled with many doubts, unknowns and fear. Will it work or won’t it? Will it make sense or will it fail? What will it be in the end? At the end of 2018, I made the commitment to finish it in the first half of 2019 and let the chips fall where they may. Long deliveries are never easy, they go on forever and at some point, you just… need… to finish it.

January 2, 2019

Greg Thomas

Fit-Can-Gap

A fit gap analysis is a tool used to determine proper fit (i.e., is this a good idea) versus the gaps that exist (i.e., what will we have to do to meet our end goal). Two questions that should come out of every Fit Gap? One – Are we comparing for the correct fit? I.e., is that we are agreeing “fits” really what we want to fit? Just because a particular product can “do” something does that mean it does that thing the way we want to do? If the answer is no – the response is no fit and

January 1, 2019

Greg Thomas

Next Up!

Congrats on reaching the top of the mountain. You did it, maybe you had help, maybe you didn’t but you got there. You made it happen. The late nights, early mornings, long weekends, busted ideas, trying things over and over and over again. You did it. Now what’s next?

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