Articles for category: Delivery

September 6, 2022

Greg Thomas

Do we need a new Wheel?

Wheels haven’t changed much since they were introduced. They are still round. The primary concept still holds true. Sure we dress them up, build them with different materials, for different terrains, for different uses, etc, etc, but the primary concept still holds true – they are round and they move forward. The same is true for many software development concepts where you do not need to go and reinvent the wheel, but rather just use what is there and apply it to your own delivery.

September 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leverage your Platform

When multi-core computers hit the mark, developers could now scale their applications to use most of each and every CPU at their disposal. To ignore them and run only one core was an utter waste of your application.  The change to implement was worth it, the learning and the time were well spent because leveraging more of what the platform had to offer made a better story for all involved. The same with the cloud, there is more, a great deal more to configure, set up, and walkthrough, but it’s all there, for you to leverage and get the most

August 30, 2022

Greg Thomas

When it Rains…

… it will pour, it will sour on every idea and plan that you had that were meticulously and perfectly planned. So have a backup for what happens, when you can’t do that one thing that you had planned for. If we should have learned anything over the past few years, have a backup, always have a backup.

August 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

Routines

Are routines better than streaks? Before streaks, we had routines, things we just did every time we had to do that thing. We didn’t gamify it, we didn’t streak it, we simply knew we had to do it and did it. Are routines harder to follow when you don’t have a counter helping you?

August 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

Levelling up your Team

The goal isn’t to get them to where everyone else thinks they should be or when everyone else thinks they should be there. The goal is to get them there when you think they should be there and when you think the time is right for them to be there. You can’t level up your team following someone else’s plan if you don’t believe it.  Hold strong to what you are doing, it will pay off.

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