Articles for category: Delivery

January 4, 2025

Greg Thomas

Don’t Drift Now…

Set your goals, set your startup – don’t start drifting now. It’s tougher to come back when you’ve let yourself drift. Now’s not the time to start.

January 3, 2025

Greg Thomas

What you Deliver

How you deliver? The path you took to get there? That matters. But more importantly, what you deliver – is it workable, does it scale, is it easily understood, can someone jump onto it next, is there a standard to it, how can it be used in the future – will always matter more. You can deliver great, quality, scalable, reusable work – in any situation you are in. Focus on what you Deliver.

January 2, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Creativity in Productivity

You can be productive and be creative. Productivity isn’t a factor that does everything a certain way without deviation. Productivity is committing to the goal and finding a path to get to that goal. When creativity enters the mix, productivity can go in a variety of different directions designed to help you try out new ideas and initiatives and grow. You can deliver consistently be productive and still be creative in the solutions you create. One doesn’t sacrifice the other.

It’s Here

It’s here, it’s finally here, we’ve waited all year for it. And now it is here. The calendar rolled over. Time to begin anew and move forward with our hopes and dreams. Or, and most importantly, keep going on the projects you started in 2024, don’t shelve them for the shiny and bright, keep pushing through.

December 31, 2024

Greg Thomas

I Can build a Calculator with an AI

That’s awesome. Now why are you building a calculator? What does your calculator do differently than the one that currently ships with Windows? Nothing? It does exactly what the current Windows calculator does.  It doesn’t do anything different. Feeding AI the requirements for an app that has existed since 1980 isn’t magic.  Sure AI might do it faster, but when was the last time you bundled your app with a calculator? I recently did a project with a new group where I gave them an assignment, and walked them through the scoring but ended it with – you can receive