Articles for category: Delivery

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

This is Where We Want To Be

I don’t know when I saw this video, it must have been during the Covid years, it’s old, way before any of it ever happened. The song is pure gold, when you’re somewhere you don’t want to be when you don’t know how to get out, when you’re confused and unsure – embrace it. “This is where we want to be, want to be.” And from there get back to what you need to do.

Your One Metric

What is the one metric that defines you? What is the one metric that people think of when they think of you? What is the one metric you want to be known for? That metric could be anything. It’s yours to identify, yours to figure out, yours to make it your own.

The Big Event

The Big Event is what you are getting ready for. The release of your software. The presentation you’ve spent the last month working on. The proposal you’ve spent the last week on. The purchase you’ve been saving for. The Big Event is whatever it is that you’ve been wanting to accomplish, working on it bit by bit each day. The Big Event is here – hope you’re ready.  

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Move Never Goes Right

No matter how well you plan, moving from one place to the other, is never perfect and is always chaotic. Even moving from one room to another, something will fail – a wire will get tweaked, something that stood perfectly for years now falls over, and worst, something might break. You get to the place, and despite all of your best labeling, you have no idea where anything is and all you want to do is order a pizza and stare at the big pile in front of you. Order the pizza; don’t debate it; order it, have it delivered,

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Work Item Overload

You will be overloaded in all your work items. There will come a time when you have too much on your plate and you’re not sure what to do. Lists are good, lists help you prioritize, but the bigger question is why you have so much on your plate. If you’re using a type of board to manage your work for everyone to see, the best thing you can do here is ensure that what you are working on, is actually what you are working on and if you can’t work on items that are assigned to you, put them