Articles for category: Delivery

March 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Finding Your Goals

There are a number of things out there that you can do. But only some you can do well. And only some you can spend the time to learn and grow at. And only very few can you achieve. You’ll be drawn into many areas over your career as people think you are “great” and “built to do this” but if it clashes with your end goals, with where you want to be in the end. All it will do is anger you and leave you frustrated. Take the time, to find what it is, you really want to do.

March 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Two Questions To Always Be Asking

In case you are confused about what you are working on or the direction you are headed in there are two questions you should always be asking of yourself and your team. What is the problem we are trying to solve? How does the solution benefit the customer? If you are always answering those questions with the customers interests in your mind, you are on the right path. Any missteps you make in between will be forgiven if you’re always, always clear on your direction formulating around those two questions.

March 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

Where are you most Creative?

I’ve become enamoured with this question after having it been asked of me. Here’s the depressing part, I know the place per se, but can’t get there all the time (I can get there 15% out of the year, but that might even be a lot). So where do I go from here? Well now that’s the fun part as I try to piece that together and find that magical place. But one piece of odd creativity I have found in recent weeks is that I am thoroughly pumped up when I play very loud metal music while trying to

March 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Who is doing what?

The question you always need to ask at any point in a project – Is who is doing what? Who is on that feature? Who is on that user story? Who is working on that bug? What are they moving onto next? It’s the toughest question to ask because immediately the person doing the work thinks – “how do you not know what I’m doing?” But they do, and they will because perhaps a few weeks ago you all decided on what was to be worked on, but things have changed since that time (perhaps even if it’s a week)

March 18, 2021

Greg Thomas

That Green Status

We want everything to be working and going smoothly. But no project has ever been like that. There will always be ups and downs, different states, where we are behind or ahead. Some days you will have bright red roadblocks while other days are smooth sailing. Whatever state you’re in, it won’t always be Green (this is good), what is even better, is being up front with everyone about it. It’s only when we’re honest with where we are at, with your team, with your client, with your project, with whoever, when we can actually start to move forward, otherwise

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