Articles for category: Delivery

April 2, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Play By Play In Our Heads

Wouldn’t it be great if you had a Play By Play announcer following you around every day, tracking your movements, annotating everything you did? Would you change what you’re doing? Would you be a little more daring to liven things up? Would you push yourself a little harder when things aren’t going your way? Would you tell them to be quiet so you could focus and get your work done? Would you see them as a critic and work to overcome? I imagine sports figures listen to the play-by-play after a game they either played well or badly to see

February 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Core of your Product

Is what customers rave about. Is what your developers are proud of. Is what your Sales Team shows first to prospective customers. Is what your Leadership team talks about first at any presentation. Is what drives your organization. Is the foundation of your business. So when it ships, the expectations from your users will always be that this is the most solid, well-thought out, cleanly designed, validated and automated piece of the product that they will use. And if it’s not been given that level of attention, than it’s not the Core of your Product, it’s someone else’s opportunity to

February 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

Pick One Change

If you are looking to go to the cloud. I mean really go to the cloud, not simply hosting a bunch of VMs in the cloud. Make a small change today to get there. Start deploying test services in the cloud. Don’t deploy anything that requires a local database. Don’t create local virtual machines to work on projects. Start using GIT or TFS Online (or both). Transition from local development, to 100% online. And if you’re not looking to go the cloud, take your big thing that you want to change in yourself. Training yourself to run a marathon. Building

February 11, 2019

Greg Thomas

Go Winter Camping

At least once in your life. Prepare for it with warm clothing, get a tent, figure out what you’re going to eat (I recommend maximum prep and limited cook time – simple is good), bring a friend (and plenty of fire wood along for the ride). Don’t check the weather in advance. It will be cold. It might be wet. It will be cold. Possibly very windy. And a sled, make sure you have a sled to drag things around in. You’ll most likely wake-up to a frozen-from-within tent and ice on your sleeping bag. This is good – that

February 5, 2019

Greg Thomas

I Don’t have an Answer, I have a Plan

How many times have you wanted to have the quick, immediate answer to a question in your head? The quick snappy comeback that people walk away thinking – “okay, I see how this is”. We don’t always have it, we can’t always have it. But if you don’t have it, you could shoot back with one that will make people pause and waiting to hear more. “I have a plan” Now people are listening, now they want to hear more, now they want to know what you are talking about. Now they are ready to wait. Not everyone is quick

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