Month: January 2019

January 23, 2019

Greg Thomas

Switching to Winter Tires

I used to work with someone who would say – “there is no season, called “All Season”, it’s winter or summer” – those are the types oftires we use in Canada. It costs money to buy, store and put on Winter tires. It costs even more to fix and/or replace your car when you don’t use them. Compare that to your current project?  When you were starting out were summers tires fine but now that you’re ramping up you need something stronger? And now that the project’s completed does it make sense to keep the winter tires on and not

January 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Lowest Common Denominator

It’s easy to Manage, Lead, Coach to the Lowest Common Denominator in your team – the Weak Link. Bringing everyone down a level is easy and takes not effort. But bringing someone up, raising their game while raising the game of the Highest Denominator on your team? That takes patience, skill, trust, consistency, effort, failure, emotion and commitment. It takes everything you have to offer that person to raise their game. The secret is once you show them how much you are willing to invest in raising their game, their game will level up, it’s a given, there is no

January 21, 2019

Greg Thomas

Why Rustproof?

Rustproofing is a big thing in the winter in Canada. It’s a fact of life – many do it – in one for or the other – whether it’s full on rust proofing, a device on your car, weekly “rust proofing” washes or anything else – it’s a thing. This isn’t about which is better or picking one over the other. This is about the reasons and story we tell ourselves regarding why we do this. It’ll keep our vehicles looking better, longer. It’ll keep the value of my vehicle. It’ll keep my vehicle performing better, longer. Whatever it is,

January 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

Project ShoeHorn

Shoehorns are designed to help slide your foot into a tight shoe.  If interested, you can find out more on the history of Shoehorns here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoehorn). Essentially, they help with a snug fit between foot and shoe. Where Shoehorns do not work is getting a size 11 foot into a size 10 shoe. Not happening, not working, not worth the effort. So the question becomes – Are you trying to ShoeHorn a small Feature into that next release to make it more snug OR are you trying to ShoeHorn a new Feature with no requirements, no understanding and no resolve

January 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Delivery Champion

The Delivery Champion is the most important role on any project. They can change the direction of a project at a moment’s notice and keep the momentum going. They can assimilate new requirements from customers into existing features. They can smooth out critical paths to QA and identify ways to speed up testing. They make sure infrastructure is ready before it’s needed. They don’t simply download new SDKs, they read up on them to understand their impact. Buzzwords are used judiciously and not to play Bingo. In short, they do the Delivery work that needs to get done to make

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