Articles for category: Delivery

February 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

The 7 Stages of Creativity

No, it’s not something I wrote. At the last conference I attended (going back to 2016), I attended Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. On the last day, the last session made the entire conference entirely worthwhile. I would have paid the conference fee to attend this session again. The talk is given by James Whittaker and is such a great talk on the need for creativity in everything we do. I’ve watched some of his other talks on storytelling and presentations which have helped me greatly. If you’re looking for motivation and direction on how to engage your creativity, take a

February 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Imagined Rush

When it needs to get done. When we needed it yesterday. When the customer is asking for it. When the project plan says it must be done. Until you look at what you are doing, how you are doing it and where you need to go with it, it’s all imagined, it’s all an idea, it’s all a concept. There is no rush, unless you make one. And if you’re making one, the only people you are hurting is your team.

February 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Rush to Fix

When a catastrophic issue arises on your project, the immediate push is to get in there and fix it as soon as possible. How can we patch? How can we get to the bottom of it? How can we make it work better? We do this, without fully understanding the extent or impact to the problem as a whole. We do this without possible fully understanding all the issues at large but wanting to do something, to show progress and make it look like we have resolved the issue. The better strategy is to take a step back and look

February 17, 2021

Greg Thomas

Do This, Get That

So many posts are geared towards that one single format in title that can lead to an increase in metrics. Take your message and cram it into that format. Does it fit? Doesn’t matter, because it needs to, if it gets watered down on the way out, it’s a problem with your content. Writing content, consuming content, in different ways, is what makes it incredible – so if your work does fall into the format of “Top 5 things to do when..” because depending on the situation it can change dramatically and you want people to know what to do

February 13, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Evolution of “Could have been an Email”…

The statement arises from a meeting that easily could have been an email. When I hear this there are generally two thoughts that go through my head. This meeting was a presentation (there is a difference), in which case, it wouldn’t work as an email because than people wouldn’t benefit from hearing each other’s thoughts and questions (which is where the magic in a presentation occurs). If it was meant to be an email, but you didn’t participate in the email, will changing it to an email make you more interested in the topic and willing to contribute to the

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