Articles for category: Drive

June 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

Where Agile Burndowns Break

We all aim for the lines to intersect on a Burndown, and if we’re doing it right they intersect in the middle. The goal of course is to start with what you work on and finish it by the end of your sprint. The problem with Burndown charts is that if you add work, they don’t change, the math is the same as any history says – you add more work to do in a short time frame, and some of it isn’t getting done without herculean efforts. But regardless, we run the burndown and spend all of 30 seconds

June 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

Finding Your Style

The hardest thing, whatever it is you do, is trying to find your style. Whether it’s drawing, writing, coding, biking, exercising, building, fixing, leading, coaching, or juggling (the list goes on forever and ever in anything you do). But rooted in everything you do, is your style, it’s no one else’s, it’s yours only. Not everyone will agree with it, they might think it’s weird or off, it might not line up with their style. That’s okay, it’s yours, and it works.

June 18, 2023

Greg Thomas

Extending Sprints

If you don’t get your work done in a week… we can’t add the eighth or ninth day… all we can do is try again the next week, starting again on Sunday or Monday (in my case, the week always begins anew on a Thursday). The same with Sprints – once you set the duration – that’s what you’re working within in – if you do or don’t get it done – that’s part of the process. To figure out what you need to tweak for next time, to figure out what you have to change. If you keep extending

June 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Comes Next?

I like to think that it’s completely up to you, you are in complete control of what comes next and where you go from here. You might not have chosen how you got here or what you did, but now that you are – what comes next is entirely up to you. You can complain about it, or do something about it.

June 16, 2023

Greg Thomas

Swing for the Fences

I know bunts and singles are good. I know they make sense from a numbers perspective. But whenever I played baseball, I always had to swing for the fences at least once a game. Sometimes you just have to evaluate the right pitch, speed, and velocity, give it your all – and swing for the fences.

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