Articles for category: Delivery

November 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Anticipation of the Event

Event planners have it tough.  They put everything they can into making something go off smoothly, perfectly, without a hitch and along the way something always goes wrong or off the rails. The secret is that they never let anyone know that something has gone wrong, they never show it on their face, they roll with it, they recover and they move on.  There is a degree of experience worked in there as well as they look for cues to respond to in advance when they are about to happen. We all need to channel our internal event planner on

November 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

One Backlog to Rule them All

If you have multiple backlogs, which one does your team know to pull through? How do they know which one is prioritized higher than the other? How do they know which items that cross backlogs might be different than the others? Keep your backlogs simple so that when your team starts to pull from them, they know they are pulling from the right place at the right time, working on the right thing. Essentially what a backlog is supposed to do.

November 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

Your Sprints can be Better

If you don’t think there is any room for your sprints to be better then you’ve fallen into the trap where you think everything is perfect, everything is wonderful, everything is amazing and you could never do any wrong ever, ever again. And as soon as you read that statement you probably thought – “Well they aren’t that great, the board needs some tweaking, I feel like we are sometimes missing items that fall into this exception category and our estimates aren’t always there when I need to report them up to the rest of the company, etc, etc, etc.”

November 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Product Delivery isn’t all about Introduction

This is a typical Product Lifecycle How long you are in each stage and the decisions you make in each stage vary from one to the other – they affect your thinking at the Product Management, Development, Testing, and Release levels. What’s funny is we talk about these stages when we are putting the product out for initial delivery but when was the last time you sat down with your team to ensure you’re building features designed for growth, practices for maturity, and support for decline. Don’t focus just on the Introduction.  

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