Articles for category: Delivery

August 14, 2023

Greg Thomas

Sprinting Waterfalls

It’s not Agile. That’s okay, it doesn’t have to be. You might have some cobbled-together methodology that looks more waterfall, than Agile and barely thinks of scrum even though you are using sprints but they don’t start until everything is in the hopper. But you’re shipping, the team is delivering, everyone knows what is going on, and the team knows where they are headed and what is next. Sounds like you’ve figured out how to make the system that works for you, no need to get caught up in the shiny new toys or the how you are supposed to

August 13, 2023

Greg Thomas

Establishing the Baseline

Baselines establish where you are at. Every Survival movie starts the same way – “What do we have?” – that’s the baseline. When you know what you have, and where you are starting from, it makes it that much easier to figure out where you want to go and what you want to accomplish.

August 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Building the Bench

The bench does not get built overnight. Building your leadership team takes time. It takes thought, on both sides, those putting out the offerings, and those receiving them. Our natural inclination is to rush in and build a team as quickly as we can, but this will always fail as quickly as we started. Take the time, find the right people, talk to them, build the bench you need for today and tomorrow.

August 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Emergence of Delivery Teams

I’ve started to see more and more articles cropping up on delivery teams.  I have yet to write my own but this is great to see.  I’ve been using the term for a few years now as I’ve worked with more and more teams on the software delivery front. The idea for it came from the idea that it takes multiple roles to deliver a software solution, in a small company those roles can overlap and be handled by multiple people yet are always critical to the overall delivery – i.e., none can be missed. But at the heart of

August 6, 2023

Greg Thomas

We Remember How It Ended

How you start is what gets things going. How you persevere in the middle is what keeps the momentum going. How you end, how you deliver, how you finish – is what everyone always remembers.