Articles for category: Delivery

July 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

Outside Leaders

Outside leaders are those that are not directly within the team or project that is being delivered but need to be kept in the know of its delivery. An Outside Leader can offer feedback, guidance, and mentorship in the delivery of a solution or they can be handed off only requesting updates where necessary. The Outside Leader doesn’t care what methodology, framework, or tools you use – if you need something, they want to get it for you – otherwise, it’s not in their purview. Your challenge as a leader of the immediate is to ensure that you are keeping

July 16, 2023

Greg Thomas

Missed Deliverables

You will miss deliverables. They will slip. Something will crop up that will make it impossible for you to hit. The questions that matter more are; Did you give people notice weeks or hours before? Do you have a backup plan? Are you short on resources to accomplish the goal? What changed that impacted things? Often we aren’t concerned about the missed deliverable, but why it happened, when did we think it was going to happen, and what’s the plan for getting back on track. That’s what builds leadership in software delivery.

July 15, 2023

Greg Thomas

Sprint Farming

Sprints are a race to get work done in a smaller period of time.  We’re not rushing to get work done, hopefully, we’re taking on just what we can, but the word itself is a sprint – so we are trying to get it all done. Farming on the other hand, is slow, meticulous, and planned out by pre-determined steps that take a period of time to accomplish.  You can’t demonstrate farming at the end of two weeks to show how far you’ve come, because sometimes you can’t see it. You don’t always have to have an end demo for

July 6, 2023

Greg Thomas

Lining up the Pieces

There are 85 steps you need to take to deliver that project. All 85 are important. You can’t skip one and expect to be successful. There is an order to those steps that you know are the path to success that you need to take. In your head, you can see them all coming together and working and crystalizing in front of you. But your team can’t, your stakeholders can’t and your customers definitely don’t know. If you want those 85 steps done to the best of your ability, you are going to have to sit down with your team

July 2, 2023

Greg Thomas

When to have a Meeting?

When the email responses have bounced around five times. When the chats are upward of ten responses and each reply is getting lengthier. When side conversations are starting to splinter off. You might have a different set of thresholds in your mind, but having the threshold is important so you can go “I think we need to get together and talk this out.” Your first response from someone might be – “Oh we don’t need a meeting, we’re almost there” – great, let’s have a call and get their faster, because unless everyone is saying they are almost there, and

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