Articles for category: Delivery

April 15, 2023

Greg Thomas

How Many Tools Do You Need

I have my favourite tools to do building projects with.  I don’t even know if I always need them, but when starting a new project, I always bring them. And eventually, I need them. They are the old stalwarts that never fail. Similarly, the tools I write and code with don’t change much anymore.  I’ve tried a variety of tools but they generally all come back to the same ones.  I drift back because they do what they were intended to do and they do it well. I keep the toolbox small because what I have can do it all. 

April 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

Build the Pattern

When you’re building a house, you can’t change everything as you’re building it. You can’t just start adding rooms without having a foundation to support them.  Once the plumbing is installed, you can’t move toilets and showers, and bathrooms altogether.  If you started off with a 3 bedroom plan, going to 5 is going to be a challenge to build something with all the same amenities. That’s how it is, you have a plan, a path, a pattern – you need to follow it.  There is room for deviation and creativity – oh look we could use this small space and

April 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Forget the Optics

If you’re delivering your work and leading your team. Don’t worry about the things you miss. Focus on what it does and how your team is doing. You don’t need to have the flashiest presentation to look the best if you aren’t delivering anything behind it. The optics always take care of themselves.

April 1, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Meetings Do You Value Most?

Why are you attending meetings you don’t value or get anything out of? If you don’t value it, if you don’t provide any value to it is it worth your time? It’s not a bad thing to say you are not contributing to a meeting and leave? That’s not being bad, that’s being upfront, and that’s showing that you care about your time and what you do. Meetings don’t need 11 decision-makers in them, and yet they are always all there. Pick your meetings of value and attend those ones, the rest, get your time back with and do something

March 30, 2023

Greg Thomas

How close to Release are you?

The Dev Manager should always have this number in the back of their head.  They should always be working towards it. They see the big picture, they see how the requirements are flowing in, they see how QA is testing, they see how things are working, what is doing well, what is doing poorly, what is slowing down the team, and where they are excelling. They should always have this number in their head + 1. The “+1” is their own internal buffer, it could be a week, a sprint, a month – whatever metric they have, it’s “+1”.  The

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