Month: June 2018

June 5, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Sloppy Delivery

Anyone can ship a product. Anyone can put a product in a box or on an Appstore and call it a product. This delivery model is personified to great extent in this clip from TommyBoy So now we know how we can deliver a Sloppy product, with little care to production. But the product, the code that follows these base rules’ Is named correctly. Is Commented. Makes sense. Follows a logic flow. When asked what it does – a straight answer comes. Doesn’t leave behind garbage that makes its way to production. That no one is afraid to go into.

June 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

Dipping your Toe in the Water

Never works. How many times have you done this, dipped your toe in frigid waters (because they are always frigid) and then walked away? “Nope, not today” How many times have you done this with a project or new product launch? “We’ll put it out there, but we are only going to put in 15% of our combined efforts to make it a success.  If it hits, we’ll invest more.” So it’s now on the customer to make your product a success, to adopt it, to share it, to spread the word, to start the movement to make it better,

June 1, 2018

Greg Thomas

Listening to the Experts

I work with a number of people who call themselves experts. Some are, some aren’t. The thing I’ve learned is that the people who do not call themselves experts, are the ones who truly are. And they are good, scary, scary good. And when they are that good, it’s easy to be intimidated by them and thinks you can’t do what they are doing or it’s too much to change to the way they are approaching problems. Maybe it is or maybe you (we) are simply scared of listening to someone who is more of an expert than us. Listen

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