Articles for category: Delivery

Who Knew what Today would Become?

Who knew that a movie made in 1977 would become a cultural lexicon and occupy it’s own day in the calendar year where we all go around saying – “May the Forth be with you?” We never knew. Who knows what your idea might take on if you put code to a keyboard, pencil to paper, or words to a book? Who knows?

It Gets Easier

But only if you start. If you never start, it will never get easier, it will always stay as an insurmountable task that you will never achieve or peak reach. The starting is the hard part, most people don’t start. But if you start, well then you are further than most that never have.

Sprints or Marathons

Some people run sprints, they are built for it, they have the body and the leg movement to make it happen – they have an incredible kick-off which buys them that crucial few seconds to take a lead. Others are built for marathons, they can store energy, they take longer, thoughtful strides, and they set a pace and stick to it. Sprinters win short races, marathoners win long races. There’s no dispute, you train differently for one over the other. Such should be how you establish your software delivery model – are you sprinting to get the work down and

April 30, 2024

Greg Thomas

I lost my Mouse

For at least 15 minutes, I was staring at my computer, trying a bunch of different tricks, searching for solutions, and restarting my computer. All because my mouse pointer had disappeared. Oh the Horror! The cause?  An update waiting to be accepted. The solution?  If your update is going to cause an inverse reaction to your user’s experience, perhaps try any of the following… Force the update to complete. Warn users. Fix the update? But don’t leave them scrolling around for something that they can’t fix – that’s bad karma when it comes to uninstalling your product.

April 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Disrupted Plan

Plans only work if you can keep implementing them. If you’re constantly re-iterating them, always rebuilding them, disrupting them like they never existed… well then they aren’t plans. There just… what was written down today, for you to maybe consider looking at tomorrow but there is no need to follow or adhere to them.