Articles for category: Delivery

September 27, 2019

Greg Thomas

What is Good Enough?

Everyone struggles with what is actually good enough. Not because we all have different levels of what we feel is “actually” good enough but rather because we are at our most critical when trying to decide if our work is at the stage of being good enough to show others. “It doesn’t do these seven things” “I need to make one last edit” “I think it should be red, not orange.” Your good enough, my good enough are very different. The best way to get past it is to ask for someone’s opinion, what do they think (and pick someone

September 26, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Problem with Project Plans

The moment they are created they are out of date. The second you send out the file with the attachment, they are old. When you go to revisit them two weeks later and you need to change all the tasks because the project has changed, they are rendered useless. When the dates don’t line up to the work that is being done (because not everything has been written down) they miss the point. That’s the problem with Project Plans. Fix that and you’ve got something of value.

September 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Don’t Binge Your Project

TV used to create tension. Each week you’d finish watching what was on the TV and have to WAIT until the next week to see what happened (and God forbid a rerun was inserted in there to prolong your wait). That’s tension, that’s having to wait for something to happen. Better yet, it builds anticipation, you would change your schedule so you can be home at that exact time to ensure you missed none of the show. It didn’t matter what if you watched 5 commercials beforehand, you were going to see all of it. In the Netflix era, everything

September 16, 2019

Greg Thomas

Leaders Can Code

You can do both. You don’t have to give up one to do the other. You aren’t measured by how good you are by doing the other. There is no ying or yang, give or take, pull or push. Leaders do code, they can code, they want to keep coding. What they don’t realize (the leaders that don’t code) is the only person stopping them from coding, is themselves. Unless you have a boss that said – “stop coding, lead now” – the decision was all your own. Not to worry, you have plenty of time to get back at

September 13, 2019

Greg Thomas

Meetings Can Go Late

If you are getting immeasurable value out of them. If no one is dropping out on their phones. If people are looking more towards the front than at their laptops. If everyone is engaged. If the conversation is exciting, discourse is happening and everyone is respectful of each other’s ideas. If forward momentum is happening. If it’s worth it. We are focusing too much on timeboxing simply for the sake of timeboxing when in effect we should be focused on the value and not how long it took. Don’t kill the momentum because Outlook pops up and says so.

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