Articles for category: Delivery

May 23, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Wheel doesn’t Need to be Reinvented

Doing everything differently for every project isn’t going to help you move faster. Redefining your methodology during a project is never going to work, that’s an outside-of-project task when no project will be affected. Tweaks are good, but changes are not good. Tweaks – “Let’s log these types of issues as bugs instead of tasks” Changes – “Let’s stop using sub-tasks and stories and go to epics and tasks” Your methodology might not do one thing, it doesn’t mean you need to throw it out.

May 20, 2024

Greg Thomas

Commitment to the Idea

The first thing everyone wants to do when the idea goes sideways is to change. Do something different. Throw it all out. Start over. Give up. The moment those thoughts enter your mind, that is the first test of the idea’s strength, can it stand the test of being kicked, can it get knocked down and stand back up again, can it rise up. Don’t stop at the first sign of distress, this is the proving moment your idea has been begging for – put me to the test, break me, make me stronger.

May 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

Every Bit Helps

I’ve been fixing a deck over the last few weekends (I’ve done this a few times), and it always makes me appreciate how all the little pieces can make the greater whole that much stronger bit by bit. Taped joists. Painting End cuts Using the right screws where (and brackets) Knowing how to double-up joists. Adjusting a few degrees for a nice drainage slant. All these things, not necessarily required, you’ll still get a deck out of it, but when you do all the little bits, they make the whole that much better and make it last that much longer

May 17, 2024

Greg Thomas

About Checklists

Checklists are great, I use them infinitely all over the place. But where they fail (and fail me) is the reorganization of said lists based on priority changes, based on workload changes, based on what I’m doing changes. This is where AI could do something useful to help out – reorganize a checklist against what I already have going on in my life. Adjust, refine, redistribute – until then, I’ll keep doing it myself.

May 15, 2024

Greg Thomas

Meetings Gone Wrong

This is funny, this is also for real. The part that gets me is the people applauding the basic achievement. Let this be the standard for what you don’t want your meetings to be.

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