Articles for category: Delivery

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Bugs Won’t Fix Themselves

If you want to bring your list bug list down, start cracking. When they are assigned to you, they are on you to work on, you to identify, and you to close. You can leave the list there and ignore it, or you can do what everyone is waiting for you to do. Start closing bugs. It’s not flashy, it’s not the greatest work, but the people depending on that work being done, will definitely appreciate it and that should be enough for you to slog through it and make it happen.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

There is always a Balance

How much documentation do you need? How heavy are your processes? How much AI do you use? What level of automation do you have? How many PRs do you ship daily? Whatever your task, whatever your work, there always needs to be a balance between how much you need and how much you want. Do you need to spend time automating every single process that you have in existence, even if you don’t use all of them? Probably not, there is a balance between the most heavily used and the ones with the most complex steps that you mess up

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Next Project is waiting

It’s just over the hill, peeking out at you like a gopher. It’s waiting for you to put down whatever you’re frustrated with and walk over the hill to see what is there. It’s not a quick win, it’s not low-hanging fruit – it’s a project – it will take time, energy, and effort. But in the end, it will be worth it. If you want to see.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Talking about Work

This is one of the best quotes from Moneyball. Talking, talking, talking, but never taking the chance, never taking the risk, never willing to press the button. I’ll keep it simple… Things will break. Debugging is never straightforward. Work isn’t easy. You won’t succeed the first time. But if all you do is talk, you will never learn, you will never grow, you will never find the next path you should be on. Don’t talk about it, do it.

6 months ago

Greg Thomas

Where we Need to Be

I read two types of articles these days; We completed our work within 4 hours and have a new product. I was hired to come in and fix a company’s product and have spent the last 2 weeks making it scale. The answer is in the middle: find the right people who use the right tools, to deliver the right thing somewhere in the middle. The middle is where we all want to be, but it’s not Instagram-worthy enough to get there, so we go with Option 1, but then when 1 breaks, we are forced into 2. Somewhere in