Month: May 2021

May 31, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Hidden Feature

If you are doing it right, you know what the Hidden Feature is. It’s the thing that makes your client fall off their chair. When they talk about it, their voice goes up an octave and they start waving their hands around in the air. It keeps them up at night as they worry about it. It’s their baby of the project and they know, deep down they know, that if it comes to light, it will be the best thing in the project. This is the Hidden Feature and thi sis the feature that if you make happen will

May 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Pilot Problem

The problem with every pilot is always the date. Always has been, always will be, primarily because when we agree on a pilot we are doing it off of what we know at a certain point in time before the pilot begins. We think we know what we are going to build and be able to get done. By that date. As you approach the pilot, you realize you might not get there – either the delivery was too ambitious, the workload grew, problems arose, people and teams changed, whatever the reason – you’re not going to hit the date.

May 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Next…

App. Game. Project. Team Member. Opportunity. Book. There is always a “NEXT” something, and if you want it to succeed, you better make sure you are prepared to do the work that goes into that NEXT thing. Because if you’re not, it won’t be the NEXT thing, but just a thing you put some energy into that didn’t go anywhere.

May 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Missing that Remote Commute?

So am I. There are days I miss being stuck in traffic and listening to radio banter or my favourite podcast or simply going into auto-pilot as I make my way into the office. I’ve always enjoyed being remote with a sprinkling of on-site days to revitalize and refresh the memory – “Oh, that’s why we’re doing this.” This is a great convo on Remotely Prepared we’re having on that old commute. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/the-remote-commute

May 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Evolving Project Role

It doesn’t matter what your role on a project is, what you were brought in to do or what you were hired for. What matters is what you are doing, how you are contributing to the team and how you are pushing the project forward. Three years on one project is a long time. What you didn’t think your role was going to change? You didn’t think you were going to grow?

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