Articles for category: Delivery

February 1, 2022

Greg Thomas

Jumpers and Process

When I went to configure my first hard drive, I had to use my thick thumbs to put these tiny little jumper boxes into the back of the drive on the pins so that the computer would pick it up correctly. I’d try, reboot, try, reboot, and eventually, I’d get the message that the drive was detected and ready for use. Oh, happy days – I had done it, I had configured the drive correctly. That’s what building a new process is like, trying, rebooting, trying, rebooting, trying, rebooting – until eventually, it clicks with your team, you lock it

January 30, 2022

Greg Thomas

What are we Measuring?

If you don’t know what you are measuring, what the goal is, what matters in the end. What are you building for? How are you building it? And what will it be what you need when you get there? Knowing what you’re moving towards (and your team) is the most important part of your delivery. It might get repetitive as you ask the same questions over and over as your spidey sense tingles when you sense confusion is near.  But the more you ask, the more it will spurn others to ask as well. And if other’s are asking, then

January 28, 2022

Greg Thomas

Meeting Presets

Every meeting, whether it’s Zoom, Meet, or Teams – the same ritual occurs. Setup my layout the way I like it for meetings and presentations, do all the fiddling around. And then go. Why these presets cannot be saved, I’ll never know. Why functions I don’t need or have never used that need to be on, I’ll never know. If you’re throwing features against the wall hoping they’ll stick and no one is using them, you’re probably missing the point. The point being the user is having to clean up features from the floor just to make your product work.

January 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

Remotely Prepared: The Numbers are In

We knew this day would come, the numbers on how we are doing, what we are doing, where we are going and a glimpse into what be next. I love these reports, not entirely for the content, but for the conversations they generate. Findings from 2021: Work from Home Research Report

January 23, 2022

Greg Thomas

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) – Errors?

APIs are great in that they help us solve a problem in a condensed fashion and/or get access to the inner workings of an application without having to learn everything about that application. The problem with many APIs is that the errors can sometimes require reading an entire manual and/or learning about the inner workings of said system in order to be able to properly diagnose the error that might be cropping up. People who complete all this learning become “experts” because they are willing to put in the time to figure out what is happening when they randomly get

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