Articles for category: Delivery

December 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Last Day

Last Days of employment right now must be a bit problematic.  Chances of that team lunch that stretches into the evening aren’t happening.  That last chat with your manager where the two of you bare your souls and talk about the future is happening over a zoom call where you wave goodbye to each other (or not at all). Are you even handing in your equipment or shipping it off three weeks later with some label on it to an office where no one is at? What about knowledge transfer?  Is it happening or do we simply think it is

December 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Knowing Your Metrics

What matters most to you? Is it how much you earn? What do you do with those earnings? How many pull requests you can handle in a day? How many deployments do you do in a month? How many people are on your team? This list can go on and on forever, but what really matters is knowing what metrics matter to you the most.  If you sell software it’s either about users, subscriptions, warranties, monthly sign-ups, etc, etc.  Those are the metrics they need to stay in business and keep going. The question is – what metrics do you

December 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Great Comeback

Apparently, we are currently in the midst of the Great Resignation where people are quitting their jobs in droves because they are fed up, exhausted, burnt out and ready to follow what matters to them most. I realize the word resignation is being used in the context of “resigning” one’s job and not in the context of “with great resignation”. The thing about the Great Resignation is that if all these people are quitting to focus on what matters most to them, then in six to twelve to eighteen months time we are in store for some incredible Great Comebacks.

December 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Staying Remotely Healthy

It’s been a wild two years of working remote and I think many of us are now looking at our health and wondering what we need to do to either improve it or keep what we are doing going. Remote Health definitely falls into the category of “easier said than done” but here are some tips on to make a better go at things on the latest episode of Remotely Prepared.

December 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

Mole Hills out of Minutia

Perspective is what separates developers from being good to great. The ones that realize a problem exists, but also realize in the priority list, it’s not the burning fire. The ones that focus on the delivery as a whole, see the bigger picture and don’t start attributing an entire release to one low-level bug or bad cosmetic issue. Attention to detail is great, but when it’s unraveling the 90% that your team is built and is winning on and focusing only on that minutia – we lose the bigger picture – which is all that we have accomplished.

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