Articles for category: Delivery

December 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

Software Sales Demo are a Thing

When working with a new platform or trying to demo something to a customer there are two elements that will make your software demo sing; Customizing it to their industry, their business, their needs. Showing them data of what can happen over a period of time. And yet, we never want to do this work. A few weeks ago, I was working on a customer demo and wanted to populate the system with some data to demonstrate historical trends and analysis. There were “tools” available for this, however no matter what I did, what configuration I had, they wouldn’t work,

December 9, 2019

Greg Thomas

Now What do I do?

If you don’t know, then you haven’t been paying attention. It’s that simple. If you have to ask, then you’ve been ignoring what’s happening with the rest of the team and have only been focused on your own work. At the end of the day, it’s what the team delivers that matters, not what the individual does. Whether it’s agile, scrum, waterfall, nimble, bimble or my favourite – simple – it’s all a measurement of what the group accomplished and what the group delivered – right down to how work is prioritized and organized. With that in mind if you

December 4, 2019

Greg Thomas

But in what Format?

When the format is more important than the content of what we are creating, we have started down a path that is hard to recover from. It’s hard to recover because the writer worries more about the look than the content because that is what they have learned they will be judged on first before anything else. As the adage goes, Content is the King (and the Queen, and the rook, and the bishop and the knight… only the pawns are the look). A better way to adopt this problem set, to get people focused on content before looks. Sit

December 3, 2019

Greg Thomas

Want to hear my Demo?

I don’t have a demo, but there are a few people I know who this is their thing, this is what they strive towards and toil on, late in the evening and early the morning. Will you listen to my demo? Will you take time out of your day to listen to everything that I have poured into this one cassette, CD, DVD, MP3, iTunes song. There is something great about having someone approach you and say those five words – whether it’s their demo, their art, their code, anything – it’s their work and their willing to share it

November 29, 2019

Greg Thomas

Late Game Solutions

When you’ve committed to a solution and are midway through the project, you’re in, there is no out (unless it is so bad that everyone is throwing up their hands, toss keyboards over their walls and generally ready to storm the cloud in the hopes of pulling it down). But you’re not there, you’re working with a solution that might not be perfect but it’s 90% of what you need, so sure there is some work to do, but you aren’t dying, the project will survive and people are happy. So in these cases – don’t get frustrated and say

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