Articles for category: Delivery

August 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

Ramming Change Through

It never works. It never works because people have questions and you’re not answering them. Ramming change through your team without hearing their concerns or input is about as valuable as ramming a car into a tree to take it down. Sure you might “get the job done” but in the process, you’ll destroy the car, hurt the driver and leave the downed tree a mess so it can’t be reused for anything else. Ask your team for help, get their input, you might find a chainsaw and a rope would be much simpler, have everyone on board and get

August 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

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.

July 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

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

Greg Thomas

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

Greg Thomas

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.

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