Articles for category: Delivery

June 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

What are we Delivering?

When everyone thinks you are delivering something different.  It’s a good time, no it’s the best time to sit down with everyone and make sure you are all talking about the same thing. When this happens, you might be the facilitator more than anything in the conversation, not trying to push people to what you see as the delivery, but rather poking holes in what the ideas of others are (respectfully) to make sure everyone agrees. When I find myself in these meetings, I like to keep bringing people back to the question at hand to drive the point home

June 1, 2022

Greg Thomas

Watch them Run

If you are never taking the moment to step back and let watch who on your team will take the reigns and run with them, then how will you know what they are capable of. The fallacy of many leaders is that they feel like they can’t step back at all because “the team will fall apart” or “they won’t be able to do it” without me there. The truth is, they are most likely going to be able to do it better than you ever have (which is what you want), but they are living in your shadow and

May 30, 2022

Greg Thomas

Split the Sprint

What to do, what to do when you are only half completed the work in a story and you’re at the end of a Sprint. There are two schools of thought here. Move the Story to the next Sprint. Split the remaining work into the next sprint. I generally opt for Number 2, when you do Number 1, all you are doing is shoveling the work to a different corner of the room hoping it’s going to get down and not realizing what might be the problem, is that the work left to do isn’t the entire story.  When you

May 29, 2022

Greg Thomas

Never Shift the Sprint Duration

There is a temptation to shift the duration of your sprint when it isn’t going as expected. Maybe more customer issues came in, maybe your estimates were off, or perhaps most of the team was out sick with the stomach flu, whatever the reason, the temptation to add a few days or weeks is always there so we can say that we finished work “within the sprint”. The problem with this approach is that your Sprint never ends, and once you do it once, it gets easier to do it again and again and again until you are on week

May 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Never-Ending Overload

The last few years have been a never-ending Overload. The last few days have been a literal electrical Overload. We all have those moments and the best advice I can offer; Take the moments to yourself, get your head on straight. Stay away from email/text/etc until you have had that moment to breathe. Generate that small win. Figure out what caused the overload and take steps to reduce it. If it’s never-ending, figure out why and what you need to do to change your path to get back to a steady-state where you are at your most productive.

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