August 1, 2021
Changing Culture
It doesn’t happen on a dime. It doesn’t happen in two months. It doesn’t happen in a year. It can, but if everyone is not on board, it can’t.
Articles for category: Delivery
July 27, 2021
The Platform Doesn’t Do it
Then here are your options; Find a new platform. Code a workaround. You can code anything, there is a myriad of languages and frameworks out there to do it. You can code anything. But going back to your user and saying “change what you are doing because we can’t do it” should be the last, final, dead stop resort only after you have exhausted all these other choices, not the first.
July 25, 2021
Paper and Pen Beat Screen
They do, they always will. Sorry, you can’t beat them (am I really sorry)? The other day I had to review a list of client requirements and get together with them for a bunch of questions to figure out what was what. To date, everyone’s been sharing documents on a screen and we slowly plod through them as we make comments, discuss format, add in pieces, re-add in pieces. This is the new world of collaboration. For this particular meeting, I printed it all out, I marked it up on my own and what I needed to do. The next
July 23, 2021
Breezing Through Your Next Presentation
If I’m doing a presentation, I try to line up the time blockage to account for what I think will be the discussion that ensues. Scratch that. I line up the time for the discussion I want to happen. The goal of a presentation isn’t to whip through it and have no questions, it’s to generate dialog and next steps. Sure I might ask for people to hold off questions until the end so they can hear everything that is being said. But that doesn’t mean we are stifling the conversation, it means there is a great deal to cover.
July 22, 2021
Huddles vs Meetings
At the first sound of a new meeting, there is a sigh (not of relief) but of dread. Another block of time in your day is taken up by a discussion of sorts that may or may not lead to something productive. Over the past year, we’ve been inundated with meetings that have given them the worst name than they already had before. At the first sound of a huddle, your immediate thought is – “What”s that? Is that the sports thing where they come up with a plan and do something?” That sounds cool? Yeah, let’s do a huddle.