Articles for category: Delivery

July 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

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

July 10, 2018

Greg Thomas

Changing Priorities will get you Every Time

They will change and shift and confuse and destroy any ounce of progress you are trying to make. If you have a daily scrum every morning and every morning the priorities are different and in direct conflict with the priorities from the day before then by the end of that week you will have accomplished nothing. And neither will your team. And if you can’t stop the changing priorities, learn to intercept them, figure out why they are happening and above all, insulate your team from them, keep them on track, keep them driving and delivering. While everyone else is

July 9, 2018

Greg Thomas

Wrong Directions in a Sprint

Sprint Planning is not easy. Your first few sprints will be a mess as you try to figure out the perfect balance between productivity, delivery, and usefulness. When getting started, there are some red flags that you want to be aware of to ensure you are getting as much out of it as others. If you are working on work that no one is going to look at for another two sprints, you’re probably working on it at the wrong time (because you will end up working on it again in two sprints, thereby duplicating your efforts). The bulk of

July 6, 2018

Greg Thomas

Change is Hard

They should really call Change a different word – like terror, fear, tension, powerless, worried, scared. Just get it right out there – those are all the emotions you are going to through in the first 15 – 30 minutes of the change being presented to you. It’s not easy, it never will be, if it was easy it would be called something else. But now that you know all the “bad” words associated with it, perhaps you can realize it’s not as bad as you think and get on with it.

July 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

Are Ad Promotions worth the Yield?

Do Facebook Ads work and get you the $$$ they promise? Only if you keep doing them. I’ve been running experiments across a couple of different platforms on a couple of different products over the last few months and have been impressed with the reach and potential of Ads. But like anything you have to keep feeding the engine because if you don’t it’ll stall out. I write this not as an expert on Facebook Ads or creating them but simply because there is more to it than running an Ad and getting a business transaction out of it, it

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