Articles for category: Delivery

July 28, 2022

Greg Thomas

Meetings are not a Technology Problem

Never have been, never will be. We keep trying to solve them with technology, but they aren’t. The problem with meetings is that we all have different expectations of what they should and should not be, who should be invited, when they should begin, what their value is, and what should happen before and/or after them to make them a success and whether they should be on a recurring basis or not. But we don’t want to sit down and talk about it. That’s our biggest problem with meetings and you can’t put a technology facade over that and expect

July 23, 2022

Greg Thomas

Your Most Critical Release

The smallest fix is the most critical release you will make to your software. It is the most critical because it is the most overlooked. “I ran it on my machine.” “It’s just this one isolated thing.” “It won’t affect anyone.” “We don’t have to tell anyone we’re deploying it.” Because it’s small we decide (for some odd reason) to treat it differently than our most significant releases and as such when something goes wrong, it generally stems from those mini releases (hotfixes, patches, service packs) than the big ones. Treat your smallest releases with the same fervor and dedication

July 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

Do we Still Need Meeting Rooms?

Yes. Or maybe it’s an area and not a room. We’ve been pretty flexible over the last few years where we met and got together and now we need to get back to doing that again when we are all together once more or when some of us are and some of us aren’t. The key to remember, which was always the problem before we went remote, was to ensure that everyone on board is included in whatever meeting you set up. The first step might be sitting down with your team and figuring out what that is before going

July 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Gap Between Waterfall and Agile

Where companies struggle in their adoption of Agile is that they implement it within a small area of the company where they learn to do it really well.  They get good at it and they get into a rhythm of what they are doing. They have tweaked the idea of Agile to meet their needs and goals and they have a system that is working and moving products and code out the door. What they don’t have is a way to translate the rest of the company’s previous Waterfall mindset of – deliver on this date, what is the percent

July 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

Cloud Hides the Bad Code

Yes, it does, there is bad code in the cloud, not all code, but a good amount. Because you can easily throw more “stuff” at it to make it more “elastic” and “spinning” up things makes it more performant. These tactics work in the short-term and get you out of a jam, but that’s all they are meant to be, if your code is performing badly, no amount of memory will ever make it run better. If you have a leaky roof, you don’t keep putting more and more shingles on it each time it leaks, eventually, you need to

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