Articles for category: Delivery

July 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Most Accurate Picture of Software Delivery

This guy got it right (and did a great job illustrating it).  My favourite test for any team that is struggling – ask yourself what kind of plane, with your current culture and team – you would end up creating. Would it get off the ground? Would it have a beverage cart? Could it land? It’s a fun exercise that gets the point of where you need to work across pretty quickly. The below comic is a great blog to subscribe to as well – https://toggl.com/blog/creative Explaining Software Development Methods By Flying to Mars [Comic]

July 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Power of Timers

If you’re stuck on what to do next, how long it’s going to take, whether it’s worth it to start, and on and on and on – all those great arguments that start with – “I can’t get enough done in that little bit of time…” Go to Google Timer, set it to 30 minutes, hide the browser, and work. After 5 minutes, you’ll forget it’s there. After 10 minutes, you’ll be frustrated you’re not going fast enough. After 15 minutes, something will click. And another 15 minutes later the timer will go and 30 minutes of work will have

July 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

When the Plan Falters

It’s going to. Things will not go your way. Things will not work out. Things will go sideways. Your plans will falter. You have two options, Leave it be. Make new plans. New plans might falter too, but they are better than doing nothing.

July 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Best Ice Cream

There is no best ice cream. There is a favourite ice cream. There is my “Goto” ice cream. There is “I feel like this today” ice cream. There is “I can’t eat that” ice cream. There is “my only choice” ice cream. But there is no best, there never has been, there never will be.  Just like many other things, there is no best, but there are many other categories that you and your product could fit in.