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July 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Nobody Cares About the Process

Yes, having a process is good, it’s needed It’s what is going to make you a success and enable you to build a repeatable system that you can accrue economies of scale from. At the end of the day, that is the heart of a process, that is the reason we implement it – to get better. A process is the equivalent of a well-run practice designed to get you to learn a particular technique over and over again and make you get better at it. But you can’t hide behind it. You can’t hide behind the process when things

July 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Remote Chicken Coops

I wasn’t able to make a recent episode of Remotely Prepared and left things to Colin Harding to run with. Instead he walked with it (bad joke, watch the episode). Seriously though, if you are looking for an episode to relax to and feel instant calm – listen to this episode. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/walk-with-me Plus: Chickens.

July 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Changing Ideas Mid-Flight

How scary is this? You’re mid-way through a project and/or delivery and you have an epiphany to pivot, change, alter your course of action. Worst, before you justify it to others you have to justify it to yourself. Even worst, you can see the different paths laid out in front of you and what they can represent – the good, the bad, the possible. It’s enough to make your gut lurch forward and leave you frozen in a panicked state. But what may come from it, might blow you away. Or it might fall flat. Here’s the problem though, you

July 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Downward Delivery

At some point in a project, features will be cut (unless you have inifinite time, resourcs and absurdly patient customers). On a first release, it is inevitable – you’ve hit issues you didn’t expect, run up against the wall against problems you didn’t even know existed, when the user saw what they were getting they wanted to change things up, etc, etc. The list goes on. When this happens, the question that everyone has to keep asking themselves should always be the same… Does this weaken our delivery? It’s not an easy question to ask (it’s not supposed to be),

July 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

If you’re Presenting Numbers

Make sure they add up. Make sure they make sense. The numbers justify your arguments, your purpose, your direction. But when they are off, they become the focus as people try to figure out why they are off, why they are wrong, what goes into them, etc, etc. Instead what you’ll be leaving with, is a discussion about your numbers and not the reason you were there.