Articles for category: Delivery

May 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

Where did all the Docs Go?

Software is changing fast and the docs are not keeping up. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, going back to when I first started programming when all I had were a litany of books spread out across my desk and that’s the only place where the answers existed. Because you know, no blogs were out there. But now, programming languages are changing so fast, code is being pumped out at unprecedented rates and we don’t know what works or where it works. I spent two days last week looking to answer a base question

May 20, 2022

Greg Thomas

Finding the Right Connection

I’ve been doing some plumbing work it’s been driving me nuts how many different connections there are between different taps, connectors, pipes, and diameters and then there are all the materials and how you work to connect them all. It feels as though I’m trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together in the hopes that I’m going to get the perfect alignment to happen but the fun part is, you can’t test it at all until everything is together, it’s impossible, literally impossible (unless you want water to be everywhere all over you and your house). So you have to

May 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

Options Analysis

When doing an Options Analysis of a variety of solutions, it’s imperative that before you start, everyone agrees on what options you are looking at. If you don’t, the road ahead will be much harder than if they all agreed to what you were looking at ahead of time. Save yourself the pain, if needs be, and break it out into two different discussions – what the options are and what the analysis is.

May 13, 2022

Greg Thomas

How to Triage

Triaging bugs isn’t the easiest thing in the world – we all have different views of Priority and Severity and of course, there are always exceptions. And the exceptions will kill you and lock you into endless debates of what-ifs. But if you think about the way triage works outside of software (where it originally originated) the goal has never been to make a perfect delivery system, the goal is to get the patient (our bugs) to the best place possible and take action from there. If they need to move around after that (an incorrect triage), it doesn’t mean

May 12, 2022

Greg Thomas

Do you want to Brainstorm?

You assume that when everyone arrives at the “Brainstorming” session that of course, they are all ready to “Brainstorm”. All ready to hear each other’s opinions. All ready to work together and bat around ideas. But it’s not always the case at which point you need to reiterate the goals of the session, why you are there, what you hope to achieve and what the end goal is moving forward.

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