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.
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…
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…
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…
I heard this the other day from someone and can’t get it out of my mind – I call it SUE for short. SUE happens when someone enters a meeting and they are so pumped about what they are doing they rattle off status updates. We delivered this. I coded that. Someone is testing this. We are designing this tomorrow. This is good, status updates are good, but now give me the context of that…