Articles for category: Delivery

August 9, 2018

Greg Thomas

You weren’t there when it was Built

So you probably shouldn’t be commenting on all that is wrong with it. You weren’t there for the late nights. For the stress-filled mornings. For the lack of documentation. For the tight-timelines. For the never listening customer. For the demos that had to be delivered. For the hotfixes and all the patches. But you’re here now. So take a second to check in on what you weren’t there for, before passing judgment.

Start with the Happy Scenario

The Happy Scenario gets a bad rap because it’s easy, it does the bare minimum and the customer doesn’t really want it. Who would want to buy it? No one… and that’s the point. The Happy Scenario isn’t for the customer, it’s for the developer who’s trying to get that new library up and running, it’s for the QA tester who’s trying to validate their first automation test case or maybe it’s for the Product Manager who’s trying to validate their first use case to get buy-in to move forward with the project? It’s for you. It’s for you to get

August 6, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Website Facelift

I’ve gone through three versions of Rambli over the past 3 – 4 years. Who knows maybe this will be the one. After having completed a marketing course (whole other post, but I highly recommend it) – I decided to give things a facelift that boiled it down to all the things Rambli is; It’s about Delivery, Drive, Initiative, Leadership, and Growth. It’s about doing it without all the extra fluff. There is no magic to picking a new template for your site, I liken it to buying a new pair of jeans – what looks good, what fits and

Have. Need. Want. – The Inner Circle

So here it is, the culmination of that sweet spot of what you HAVE to do, what you NEED to do and what you WANT to do all being perfectly aligned in that perfect sweet spot where you have all your external factors under control, what you NEED to do is driving what you WANT to accomplish. It’s here that all our goals are being accomplished, what we deliver attuned to what we WANT to accomplish, what our profession NEEDS for us to accomplish and what any external factors (Manager, Leader, Company, etc) HAVE for us to accomplish. They are

Your Own Personal CRM

You don’t think you need one, but you do. Something to manage all your projects, your tasks, your ideas, your deliverables, your leads, your contacts, your customers. Did I forget anything? How much of that is rummaging around across a variety of disparate tools that you can barely manage on your desktop? Pick a tool, use it for everything, get all your information together, make sure it works across all platforms you use (if it fails on one, don’t bother with it, move on). Download everything in your head and start working on what you really should be doing, not