Talking Businessly

We do some bits. We talk about good practices while pair programming. Then we wonder if product development processes primarily exist to compensate for trust issues. High trust environments are the only ones we want to work in.

• John is tanking a lot of bureaucracy
• Daniel is writing a LOT of code
• Daniel is going to Laracon Australia
• We discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgV6M1LyfNY

According to ChatGPT we discussed:

• Mentoring and meetings
• Age discussion
• Product management
• Splitting time between two companies
• Home inspector conference in Atlantic City
• Billing strategies
• Different pricing models (hourly, project-based, retainer)
• Composite team approach (offering product management, engineering, design)
• Value proposition for small companies
• Communicating and marketing the value proposition for Sunk

We catch up as usual, and check in on the state of all our goals.

On this episode we dig deep and do a post-mortem on a messy wrap-up to a client engagement.
Our key takeaways:

• Overcommunicate
• Overcommunicate some more

This episode is late because of an interesting process breakdown.

• Verbs Vacation
• A New "vision-mission-value"
• The Pre-Mortem

Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) officially joins Thunk's panel of mentors! Aaron gives John feedback on his blogs, and provides LOADS of good ideas for how to improve it and grow the audience. 

Who are our guys?

We run through a list of potential panelists for our panel of mentors and discuss what it would event look like to empanel them.

• John's game Colossi is almost ready
• The sales funnel is working
• Max is having a hard one
• We've made progress on our goals
• This is not the episode about hiring a mentor

• We have glowing feedback for each other
• Daniel's blog feedback made the blog a lot better
• Getting creative with business development tactics
• We discuss the company's Vision, Mission, and Values