Articles for category: Delivery

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

June 22, 2024

Greg Thomas

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

June 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

All Problems, All the Time

Problems are the bread and butter of your success. How many can you solve? How fast can you solve them? How do they scale? How much effort do they take? What is needed to fix them? When hiring, you always want problem solvers because no matter what they know, have on them or know through their network – they’ll be the ones to figure it out and that’s what you need.

June 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

Know your Basics

I saw this picture the other day and it speaks volumes, not only for sports but for work as well. Your basics are what set you apart from everyone else. Knowing what they are is what makes you indispensable because then you can start focusing in on them, refining them, and making them stronger. But if you don’t know what your basics are, what your fundamentals are – then you’re just practicing everything, everywhere and not getting anywhere.

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