Articles for category: Delivery

January 13, 2023

Greg Thomas

Requirements in Agile

Over the past few years, I would ask Product Managers or Business Analysts to send me some sample requirements so I could help out some new people on our team with how to write requirements.  If they were using Agile, I’d sometimes get back a response akin to – “Oh we don’t do requirements, we write notes” or “Yeah, I don’t have anything to send you because we don’t have documents on any of it.” To which my response would be – “but how do you know what you are building?” And the response to that would be – “Well,

January 9, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Proof of Concept Problem

Proof of Concepts is great, they solve a piece of a problem in an isolated way with minimal investment. The problem with a Proof of Concept (POC) is when they prove the problem and stay there, they don’t get integrated into the mainline.  They don’t get incorporated, they go back on the shelf while the problem they were meant to solve goes on and on and on. And then they nag at the team, because the team now knows the answer to the solution but can’t use it.  It’s there, but just out of reach. If you are going to

January 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Job do you Want?

What’s your perfect job description? When was the last time you wrote it out?  On paper, in front of you? Do you keep it posted so you can check against it each day to see if it is what you want? Are you missing skills to get there? Is that list prioritized or is it spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks? What’s next after you get that perfect job? These are the questions you need to be asking yourself that will help you find the job you want.  It’s like any goal, when you take the time to

January 5, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Join Meeting Experience

When you go to a meeting in a physical location you typically do the following; You take what you need. You go to the room. You start the meeting. When you go to a meeting virtually you typically do the following; Open the Invite Connect to the meeting (generally involves more than two clicks to confirm that you “really” want to go to the meeting. Show up in the meeting and fuss around with drivers as you try to connect. Wait for others to do the same. You start the meeting. There are many more minor steps in between but

January 4, 2023

Greg Thomas

Finding your Audience

Your audience is out there, you simply haven’t found them yet. You can have the best message and/or product out there, but without an audience, you will have nothing. Outline who your audience is, write down what they are looking for and what they need from you, then craft your message, the one that will help them understand who you are and what you are about. It might not work the first time, but that’s the idea, to keep iterating until you do find them, and then your message will become crystal clear as to why you never did this

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