Articles for category: Delivery

October 17, 2016

Greg Thomas

How to Measure a Great Resource

Step 1: Take a Task that you know has a number of steps to it – let’s say 12. Step 2: Get them started on Step 1. Step 3: Wait. Step 4: Gauge where they came back and asked for help – what step were they on? Where did they get stuck? What did they do with the information you shared with them? It’s not about you helping out at Step 1 and ignoring them until they reach Step 12. It’s about figuring out how they go about getting from Step 1 to Step n (where n is how far

October 14, 2016

Greg Thomas

Don’t be Driven by External Factors

It’s easy to become seduced by the stats, page views and followers of our work. How many comments did we generate? How many leads were created? What was the conversion rate? How many followers did we garner from that last campaign? These are the External Factors – the factors we have no control over, the factors we can only influence but not control – despite our ongoing efforts. But the Internal Factors – the feeling of accomplishment, of putting our best work out there, of doing something different when we know the tried and true will “do the job” and

October 11, 2016

Greg Thomas

Accepting the Solution is the easy part

Understanding the solution… Learning the solution… Breaking the solution… That’s the hard part, because now it’s more than blanket acceptance, now it’s learning, growing, questioning, evolving. The worst answer in a newly implemented solution when it breaks. “I don’t know, I never looked into it” Don’t accept the solution, break it down, figure it out, own it, make it yours. Only then should you deploy it.

October 4, 2016

Greg Thomas

From Developer to Architect

You start writing code, you start compiling code then you ship code. Rinse and Repeat. Slowly the work being given to you gets bigger and larger, you’re not doing bugs anymore, you’re working on full-scale PBIs, Features, and Releases. At the same time, you start to look back at some of the old code you wrote only to declare – “Holy Hippo Spit what was I drinking when I wrote this”. So you start to put more time into the design, to account for mistakes of the past and make something better for the work that you are now being

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