Articles for category: Delivery

May 22, 2020

Greg Thomas

How to Show up for an Online Meeting?

If you want your online meeting to succeed you are going to have to commit to taking the following steps on an ongoing basis; Start on time. Come Prepared. Know is expected of you. Understand what the goal of the meeting is for. Validate your connectivity. And this is only if you are an attendee on the call – the list for a presenter is all this and more. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

May 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

Muted

In a heated meeting, where everyone has an opinion and reason for being there, we all have something to say. However, this is no excuse for speaking over one another and interrupting people. In a meeting room, you can see the passion coming from people as they speak and as you make eye contact with your interrupted colleague to let them rant on so that we can get back to the topic at hand you let it go. But in an online call, where you don’t turn on video, we can mute you and get back to the topic at

May 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

It wasn’t THAT Bad

When we think our latest effort at something was truly, horribly, the worst possible outcome, it really wasn’t that bad. When we ask someone for their opinion, it’s generally better than our own. We are hardest on ourselves. It wasn’t that bad. It’s just not as good as it was in your head. But it’s better than what others are working towards. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

May 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

Enabling Bad Behaviour

I can’t take the credit for this – a good friend mentioned this when talking about client work that he does and it reminds me of the work that sometimes you “have to do” because the client “says they need it”. But what that work really does, is enable them to keep doing things badly. Maybe it’s a fear of change, maybe a few of something new or maybe they like doing it this way because that is the habit that they generated (bad habits are easier to set then the good ones). But at the end of the day,

May 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

What Agile Isn’t

An excuse to not do the work you have been doing to date and to do it right. Agile is not getting into a Tesla, dropping the hammer and seeing how fast you can go when you don’t even have a license to begin with. Agile is about iterations and delivering value. If you are not delivering value in every iteration, then it doesn’t matter how fast you are going, you have missed the point. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

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