Month: July 2018

July 9, 2018

Greg Thomas

Wrong Directions in a Sprint

Sprint Planning is not easy. Your first few sprints will be a mess as you try to figure out the perfect balance between productivity, delivery, and usefulness. When getting started, there are some red flags that you want to be aware of to ensure you are getting as much out of it as others. If you are working on work that no one is going to look at for another two sprints, you’re probably working on it at the wrong time (because you will end up working on it again in two sprints, thereby duplicating your efforts). The bulk of

July 6, 2018

Greg Thomas

Change is Hard

They should really call Change a different word – like terror, fear, tension, powerless, worried, scared. Just get it right out there – those are all the emotions you are going to through in the first 15 – 30 minutes of the change being presented to you. It’s not easy, it never will be, if it was easy it would be called something else. But now that you know all the “bad” words associated with it, perhaps you can realize it’s not as bad as you think and get on with it.

July 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

Are Ad Promotions worth the Yield?

Do Facebook Ads work and get you the $$$ they promise? Only if you keep doing them. I’ve been running experiments across a couple of different platforms on a couple of different products over the last few months and have been impressed with the reach and potential of Ads. But like anything you have to keep feeding the engine because if you don’t it’ll stall out. I write this not as an expert on Facebook Ads or creating them but simply because there is more to it than running an Ad and getting a business transaction out of it, it

July 2, 2018

Greg Thomas

Showing Up

Whether it’s being a Coach, being a Manager, being a Team Lead, a Tech Lead, the Project Coordinator, the Customer Advocate – pick your role where you are responsible for the delivery of a group of individuals the first step is always the same. Show Up. Show Up and bring your best attitude, your best work ethic, your best ideas and your best effort. You can make mistakes, you can fail, you can screw up, you can fall on your face, you can slip and fall, you can break the build, you can submit the wrong form, you can order

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