Articles for category: Delivery

December 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s Wrong with our Meetings?

Think back to the last time you had a great meeting, one that truly blew your mind and left you feeling satisfied. Chances are it wasn’t in the last few months. Greater chances are that it was even longer than that. If you knew your meetings for the next week and the week after we’re going to be exactly the same, leave you feeling exactly the same way – would you still attend them? Or would you be willing to take the time to figure out how to make them better? The questions aren’t complicated – it simply boils down

December 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Delivery Eve

I often equate the night before a software release akin to Christmas Eve.  Everything is just so, all the plans are perfectly in place, the sign-offs are received,  the team is ready, on-calls are all set. Now all that’s left is to make it happen. Sometimes it goes off without a hitch, sometimes you forget to wrap something. But it always works out, and it’s one of my favourite days in any release.

December 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

We know Enough of what we know

Oftentimes this is the scariest answer to hear from a developer when you ask them if they have everything they need. As a Dev Manager, your response should never be – “great” – it should always be – “okay let’s sit down and figure this out.” If the team only knows what they know and yet there are questions about what they don’t know, it means they are not seeing the entire picture and your role just became crystal clear – help them see the picture. Don’t accept it that they “kinda know”, you need them to fully know, because

December 17, 2021

Greg Thomas

What you Deliver

What is it that you deliver to your customers?  Your team?  Your CEO?  Your clients? Writing code, building test cases, writing requirements – those aren’t what you deliver – they are the output of what you deliver. Here are some ideas of what you can deliver (written in the I format) I deliver scalable, performant solutions. I deliver software that takes a licking, keeps on ticking, and comes back to life when everything around it fails. I deliver teams that can build anything. I deliver guidance, mentoring, coaching to junior team members so they can one day lead this company.

December 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

Fresh Starts

New Year is just around the corner, followed by a bit of a break for everyone as we take time to recharge for the oncoming New Year which who knows what is in store for us then. It’s generally around this time I start thinking about what I accomplished and what I want to start fresh on in the following year. No matter how much baggage, how many mistakes you have made, where you are coming from, what you are working on or where you are stuck – you can always make fresh start at something new.

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