Articles for category: Delivery

May 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

How to get people to try your new Product

Ask. And mean it, “Tell me what you think, is it garbage?  Is it good?  Is it a mess?  Does it do what you want it to do?” We use to invite users to come to our offices to try out new versions of our products. Users, in our offices. No remote or virtual calls, in-person connections where we saw their faces scrunch up at a horribly implemented feature. And then we’d go out to dinner, laugh, and do it again the next day. Getting people to try your product isn’t hard, listening to the feedback that comes with it

May 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Focus on The Little Bugs

It’s the little bugs that hold you back, not the big ones. The big ones, everyone jumps onto, everyone knows what they are about, it’s crystal clear what the problem is and how to solve it. But the little bugs, those are the blisters on your software, that prick you when you turn the wrong way, that itch, that irritate, you have no idea how they got there or what happened – but they are there, knawing at you every day. The little bugs are what where you down. The little bugs are also what will drive your users bonkers.

May 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

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?

May 3, 2024

Greg Thomas

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.

May 2, 2024

Greg Thomas

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