Articles for category: Delivery

20 hours ago

Greg Thomas

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

2 days 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.

Too Many Tabs

The problem with tabs in browsers is that you can leave things alive forever, occupying your thoughts, taking over your brain, always prodding you with work you have yet to complete. It is a reminder of things not finished, always staring you in the face. And who needs that? You know you didn’t finish it. You know you still have work to do. Maybe it’s not your choice, but it is what it is. If you aren’t working on it, save them, group them, do whatever, and close them off. If you need it, you’ll come back to it. Too

No One Likes to Run

Starting is easy, but midway through, something starts to hurt. Just when you think you’ve mastered a distance, you add on a few more, thinking it will be nothing and hurt even more. Figuring out your pace is hard; some days you are on fire, other days you’re way behind. To improve, you need to show up every day. It’s not only about running, mixing in biking and hills can help, but they aren’t always running, it’s something else. If you’re running for fun, that’s great, but most people have a goal in mind, and reaching that goal can be

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

You can build it in 2 Minutes

Yes, with any AI tool, you can build a product in 2 minutes. But what is your ship rate? What is your customer acquisition rate? Even better, what is the customer referral rate? Next, how does it integrate into your existing platform, infrastructure, and workload? Is it still 2 minutes? I’m still wary when a developer says, “I’ll be done in 2 minutes”, because it never is. Nothing takes 2 minutes; pieces of things take 2 minutes, but the entire picture together, that takes longer than 2 minutes. You can build it in 2 minutes, but it takes longer to