Articles for category: Delivery

February 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

Team-Ups

When was the last time you worked with someone on your team that you’ve been dying to work with for a while on a special project? It doesn’t even have to be a special project, just some project. There are people that I have worked with where I never got this opportunity, I kept pushing it off, thinking it would happen way later in our careers but something came up -I left, they left, moved to separate teams, pick your reason. Don’t wait for the next great team-up to happen, go make it happen.  

February 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Least Connections

We don’t count the least connections. We should because the ones with the least connections are the ones that have the most value. Because we have time to cultivate and grow each one. The more you, the harder it becomes to maintain that same level of touch and value when we had the least of them.

February 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

Not Another Subscription

Everything is a subscription, we don’t buy it outright, we get dinged every day, week, month, and year based on our usage.  And if we don’t use it enough there are base fees to “keep the lights on”. Not everything needs a subscription, not everything needs an account, a login, or a profile that does everything except cancel it. I don’t pay a subscription fee for my shoes and they are doing just fine. If you are charging a subscription fee, make sure you are making that fee worthwhile, otherwise, sell me on creating another profile.

February 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Update Meeting

Update Meetings are not the easiest. Whether you’re an attendee or a presenter, there is always something missing, it’s never what you want to hear (but perhaps someone else does) and there is always some critical piece of information “missing” that must be discussed today. But the greatest problem with Update Meetings is that they are scheduled, recurring and pre-ordained, so even when we don’t have an update, we have to get into a room and fill the meeting space and void with an update that simply might not exist, or be good enough to exist. It’s this void that

February 6, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Empty Release

A release with no value is not a release. Every release should have value, every release should have something that we are proud to stand behind and look back and say – “we did that”. Every release should have something that makes us go – “wow, this is fantastic”. Even hotfixes. Even Service packs. An empty release is one that has none of this because we know there are going to be issued when it goes out the door, and we know there are going to be complaints. So we’re waiting for something to go wrong once someone starts to

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