Articles for category: Delivery

October 22, 2018

Greg Thomas

Nimble, Swift, Agile, Waterfall and River

Ways of doing things? Directions on going down the river? Here’s a secret – “It doesn’t matter what methodology you use.” You could deliver a project using Agile that someone might have used Waterfall to deliver that someone else might be coming up with their own homegrown solution. What matters is software being delivered, that makes sense and provides value. Start there, work backwards and figure out what your team needs to make it happen.

October 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Uninitiated Requested Upgrade

Two instances today of upgrades that went sideways as of late. While running a critical program my desktop upgraded.  I had to dig into the settings to force it to notify me (the audacity) when it can decide to reboot. And restart my program again, losing 8 hours of work. This process could have been tweaked with a simple pop-up – “Hey, it looks like you’re doing some work, want us to wait?”. I have other ideas, but that’s the simplest (and they know work is going on, they built the programs). The second was a request to upgrade a

September 27, 2018

Greg Thomas

Volunteer for Something

Whatever fits into your wheelhouse but volunteer. Whether you’re a marketer giving your time to a small ad agency. Or a coder giving your time to a non-profit. Or an engineer coaching a youth basketball team. Or a (INSERT PROFESSION HERE) doing (SOMETHING GREAT HERE). You might go in thinking you’re going to get nothing out of it – but you will, it simply depends on what you are willing to put into it that will be the differentiator.

September 25, 2018

Greg Thomas

You Don’t Need to Change the World

Or make a dent it in as Steven Jobs so famously said. Or implement a change that affects millions and billions overnight. What you DO need to focus on is what you need to do to change your world and make an impact on the people around you. Focus on that delivery, focus on that change. Once that change happens, the rest will fall into place as blocks always do.

September 24, 2018

Greg Thomas

Stop the Presses!

If you’re not sure where this phrase originated from here is a brief synopsis. And if you didn’t read the above link you know the phrase from any movie that featured a newspaper where information so cataclysmic that it required a full-stop on what was being done.  Everyone… EVERYONE… stopped what they were doing and looked up to see who had yelled it out and what new information justified it. But here we are, in a 24 hours news cycle where the presses never stop for anyone – we never stop or fix what we are doing because there is

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