Articles for category: Delivery

13 hours ago

Greg Thomas

The Last 10% of Any Project

The Last 10% of any project is the hardest and takes the longest – mentally – of the entire project. I don’t know how long it will take you or what it takes to complete it. Only you do, all I know is the last 10% can take twice as long as the middle 80% and thrice of the starting 10%. The solution? Find a closer, someone who can take that last 10% over the finish line. They are in short supply, but when you have one, they will make every project succeed by finishing that last 10% that the

Storms Expose the Cracks

And then it’s up to you to figure out how you’ll fix them. We’ve all had those repairs that we’ve pushed off because – “we’ll get to it someday”. And then the storm hits, and we think to ourselves – “someday was yesterday”. So now the question is, when is the next someday going to come, because we know the next storm is going to be just as rough.

Code Like an Artist

Coding will always be a creative endeavour to me – forever and ever. Use a different Framework. Try out a new SDK. Connect to a new API or MCP Integrate with another platform. Use Dependency Injection. Scope your Agent. Trigger from an Event. Any and all of these can be decided and created in a variety of different ways, and they can all be done creatively and with reckless abandon. Don’t code like a machine, code like an artist.

Your Roadmap

Software products have roadmaps – it’s the direction, the map – you want to follow to get from A to B. We don’t always follow it correctly; sometimes we veer off left or right and go off-roading for a while – sometimes I wish we didn’t, but more times than not, I’m super glad we did because it ended up making the product that much better. But in the end, we hit our goal and delivered our solution – it’s a map, similar to when you’re on vacation and you stop at the shop on the way to pick up

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

Never Actioned Logs

What’s the point of your logs if you’re never going to look at them? If your logs are only there to check the box that “yes, we have logs”, there are many cheaper ways to accomplish this goal. Logs are meant to be actioned. Alerts are meant to be read. If you’re doing neither, then they will never help your users have a better app experience.