Articles for category: Drive

December 2, 2022

Greg Thomas

Incremental Gains

They say all gains are meant to be incremental except when you hit that “whoa” moment. Where it finally connects, where you finally break through, where everything completely comes together. At that point it no longer feels like an incremental gain, it feels monumental, it feels huge, it feels like you didn’t just climb up the mountain, but rather ran up it and took a flying leap off of it. But without those small investments, you would have never been able to leap. Don’t doubt the incremental gains simply because you don’t see them immediately, the one day you need

November 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Wrong Comparisons

Oftentimes we compare the wrong things. They are better than us, but they are always three years ahead of us in development. Your code is faster than mine, but yours also does less. Your team works better together, but our projects are also different. The list goes on Infinitum, but the question remains the same – if you are comparing apples to oranges, they will always be different. We think the time is spent in the comparison, but where it should really be spent is ensuring that we are comparing the correct things.

November 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

Your Sprints can be Better

If you don’t think there is any room for your sprints to be better then you’ve fallen into the trap where you think everything is perfect, everything is wonderful, everything is amazing and you could never do any wrong ever, ever again. And as soon as you read that statement you probably thought – “Well they aren’t that great, the board needs some tweaking, I feel like we are sometimes missing items that fall into this exception category and our estimates aren’t always there when I need to report them up to the rest of the company, etc, etc, etc.”

November 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

Become the Owner

We’ve all been there, on a call, on a meeting, the problem is being discussed, ideas are being thrown out, but nothing is being decided.  You look around the room and see people starting to get disconnected, checking their phones, they are no longer invested and they are losing focus of the problem. It’s at this point that someone needs to take control of the situation at hand, because if they don’t, not only will this problem not get properly resolved but everything that happened before this meeting will be ignored and forgotten and all that will remain will be

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