Articles for category: Delivery

July 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Plan goes Awry

You have a plan, you have it laid out, everything lines up and when it comes together it has the potential to be magical and transforming. And then a wrench gets thrown into that plan that tosses it out the window and it won’t come together as you had expected. You can look at it as an undoing of your plan, a failure to see what is now coming your way, you could even treat it as an opportunity (which it may not be). Chances are though, it’s a new plan, that needs to be worked on, and the longer

July 1, 2022

Greg Thomas

What is a Feature?

A feature is a collection of requirements that need to be delivered as part of a product. The requirements that form a feature can generally be broken down into stories that form the scenarios which are used by the feature and/or they can simply be the use cases for which a feature can be handled – both are very similar. In short, I like to think of it in this way – it’s a big thing we want to give to our customers that cannot be delivered in a single sprint, BUT we want that big thing delivered to our

June 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

Half Day Meetings are Back

But only if they are great. I love a good half-day meeting. If done right, it means business, it means direction and the measurement is simple. Were these 3 or 4 hours more valuable than a bunch of 1-hour meetings spread throughout the week? When done right, they should be. When done wrong, they will be seen as a waste of time that got you nowhere. The key to a great half-day session is to only invite those people that need to be there, smaller meetings can stand to waste time, and they can just schedule another small meeting in

June 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

About that Error?

Is it still an error if no one sees it? Of course, it is. But whether it becomes a bug, well that’s up to you, the Developer, to decide how much you care to fix it.

June 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Pursuit of Next

Next is what we are all after. We don’t always know what next is, but we know it is the next thing that we want to go for, it’s the next thing we want to achieve. The goal then is to figure out what you need to do, to get to Next, and start the plan to get there. Sounds like lots of “thinking” work and not enough “doing” work, but if you’re not willing to think about where you want to go, how will you know what you are going to do when you get there?

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