One day you are going to pick a product or tool to do a job that just doesn’t fit. Maybe it doesn’t work, maybe it doesn’t line up, maybe it simply doesn’t do what it was supposed to do. The only question in your mind is – “Now what am I supposed to do?” At this stage you have two options; Do a ton of work around this tool or product (I’m looking at you…
As we start to crest the remote wave, hybrid offices, people staying remote, pay equity changes are starting to become the topics du jour. There is no more talk of New Normal or Now Normal, it’s now going to be about the “Next Normal”. And the Next Normal has the potential to take away all the great things that we have done with remote over the past year and make them hurt. A few things…
Instead, worry about what’s going to happen when you get it right. What you’ll be able to focus on next. Where you’ll be able to go next. How you’ll be able to grow your team. What problems you’ll solve next. Those are the problems you want to be solving.
Proof of Concepts has one goal – proof out a concept. That concept can be a new process, an idea, a solution, a product, a prototype – take your pick – it’s something new that you haven’t done before that you want to see if it will work in whatever it is your doing. We undertake them to reduce the risk because if it turns out the proof doesn’t work, we haven’t aligned everything to…
I had to have a meeting with a client a while back to discuss an issue on their project. When we got onto the call I phrased it like this… I need to discuss these requirements of what we can and can’t do, and I need to do it without all the project filters, cadence, processes around us. I need to tell you straight up the challenges we’re facing. The response? Thank you, let’s talk.