Articles for category: Delivery

November 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Status Meeting Replacements

An Open SLACK Channel. A OneNote shared with everyone. A Basecamp project that everyone can post to. A Google Doc that everyone fills in. A text file that everyone updates. A conference call where people jump on if they have a problem but don’t need to attend if they don’t? There are so many options available to you and your team that can solve the problem you are having with people not attending status meetings on time, not having anything of value to say, not needing to hear what others are saying, having problems logging in and on and on

November 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

AI Go Boom

If you’re looking for an example of AI going rogue, you don’t have to go far, you only need to look at Apple and Goldman Sach’s recent problems with their Credit Card Scoring. And let’s not forget Microsoft’s Twitter AI Bot. Is AI bad? No. But like anything, like humans, delivering to the one, to the few, to a group, to a company is a significantly different proposition then delivering to a province, a state, a country, a world. We as humans cannot do it overnight, no matter how much data you throw our way, we simply cannot process it,

November 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

The More You Invest

Fast forward to 2:45 – where Ramsay says to the chef – “They more work and effort you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong.” – I’m paraphrasing out some of the pieces about food but the sentiment is exactly the same in anything you are doing – coding, writing, sports, whatever it is. The more you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong. I love this line because it perfectly captures on line that we must cross between investing wholly in what we are doing and giving up and when the going gets

November 14, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Pre Meeting Meeting

The next time you’re invited to a Pre Meeting Meeting make sure you openly ask if this is the “Pre Meeting Meeting”. For some, this will be a negative deterrent to make this meeting the only meeting that needs to happen and the other meeting is not required. At the end of this meeting, there will be cheers that the second meeting is not required and we have “received an hour back” of our time. The second option, is to ask why both meetings are required to start with? What are we trying to achieve that requires everyone in the

November 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

Constant Restarting

If you were to go on a 5 hour drive, pull over every 10 minutes, shut your car off, restart it and get back on your journey, the journey would inevitably take you that much longer. The constant, stopping, starting, stopping, restarting will eventually slow you down, frustrate you and make you question what you are doing. (See parents on their first journey with kids who are not used to the constant stopping and starting and the chaos that ensues – I know – I’ve been there). If you find yourself on a project that is continually stopping and starting,

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