Articles for category: Delivery

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

September 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

Stop, Collaborate and Listen

There are products that had a stronger leg up to become a SLACK competitor or the SLACK. The had the foundation, the infrastructure, and the people to make it happen. But if you look at many of these applications, they were either; High-Investment – trying it out wasn’t an easy sell, you needed to invest time and money to make it happens. Closed Loops – Download software, have a big crazy profile of useless information and make it complicated to interact with different groups of people. Integration – want to show your work from Google Docs?  What about Office365?  Maybe

September 14, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Running Game

I like running, I like running a lot – but like any person, I know I can’t run forever. As much as I would like, my legs will get tired and it will become more about pain management than progress. Maybe I haven’t trained hard enough, built up enough endurance or don’t have the will to keep going. The same thing happens on projects – sure you can keep running and pushing and running and pushing and running and pushing – until you have nothing left to give in the hopes that it was enough to deliver the project. But

September 13, 2016

Greg Thomas

You’re in my Spot

We’re moving things around. The spot I had previously set aside that received the optimal wifi signal, had room for me lay out papers on, a window and a comfortable chair is now gone. I haven’t been able to figure out why it’s been hard to write anything the last week – my spot is gone, lack of ideas , perhaps my motivation seemed to drop off a bit – any or all of the above? I thought about this last night as I walked aimlessly around the house for another place – that one has no wifi reach, no

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