Articles for category: Delivery

June 25, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Beginning of AI

We’re at the beginning of AI… We have to ask for work to get done. We have to review what gets done. You can’t take what AI gives you and run with it without checking it over, it needs you to do that, you are the one who is going to take what AI is giving you and make it better. I know I have to dig more into AI, to see how it can “augment” and save me time, I currently don’t have the time (which could be part of the problem) – but the few casual times I’ve

Train Better

If you’re not getting selected. If you’re not getting the opportunities you want. If you find yourself lacking. The only way to get there is to train better – whatever that better is, it’s the only way. And only you can do it.

June 23, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Unreported Bugs

The unreported bugs are the worst bugs ar the worst ones of them all. We know they exist, but we don’t want to work on them. We know how bad they are, but we don’t want to test them. They are bigger and of grander scale than anything we have ever seen that resides in our heads but yet we have never done anything with them. We make them so big that they cannot be written down. And yet when we solved them they were not that big, we just put them off, time and time again, hoping they would

The Delivery Lost Timeline

The lost timeline is where everything went perfect, where it all worked out, where nothing went wrong and things came together without a moment’s hestitation. Nothing went wrong. You were perfect. Your team was perfect. It’s a lost timeline, because it never goes this way so stop trying to force it to get there.

June 19, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Lost Sprint

You want to reduce your lost sprints when it comes to building a release. Lost sprints happen – customer bugs come in and they derail everything you’re doing.  Or a seemingly well-estimated bug blows up in your face and ends up becoming a feature that still needs to be done this sprint, but everything else will be pushed out. The sprint becomes lost when more and more of your team starts to work on these unplanned activities and continually pulls in more of your team. How do you stop losing sprints? Whoever is setting the sprints, knows the landscape of