{"id":662,"date":"2019-01-02T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2019-01-02T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:07:46","slug":"two-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Two New Year&#8217;s Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-confetti-48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-confetti-48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\"><\/a>Today is January 2, the first workday where we get to practice our New Year&#8217;s resolutions.&nbsp; Did you make any?&nbsp; For Steelray, New Year&#8217;s resolutions take the form of annual objectives.&nbsp; This year, <strong>we&#8217;ve made two big resolutions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-listen-48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-664 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-listen-48.png\" alt=\"listening\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\"><\/a>First, we resolve that we&#8217;re going to do a much better job of communicating with you.&nbsp; That includes sharing news about releases and events we&#8217;re attending.&nbsp; Communication is a two-way street, so it also involves listening very carefully to your feedback, ideas, and suggestions.&nbsp; In fact, <strong>the listening part is the far more critical part of communication<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-idea-sharing-48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-idea-sharing-48.png\" alt=\"sharing ideas\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\"><\/a>Second, we&#8217;re going back to our roots and delivering groundbreaking software &#8212; this time in the area of <strong>schedule delay analysis<\/strong>.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t share the details yet, but that day is coming soon.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve been in R&amp;D mode for most of last year, working on the technology.<\/p>\n<p>At times, we encountered roadblocks that made us question whether we&#8217;d be able to push through. And we pushed through. (If it were easy, it would have been done already.)&nbsp; We&#8217;re not there yet, but we&#8217;re getting much closer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-phone-48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/icons8-phone-48.png\" alt=\"phone us\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\"><\/a>And, in keeping with our first resolution, I&#8217;m spending time every day speaking with potential users of the software, understanding how it can best help and how it would be used.&nbsp; So, if you&#8217;re someone who looks at schedules with the purpose of understanding the impact of changes to the schedule, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelray.com\/contact.php\">reach out to me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is January 2, the first workday where we get to practice our New Year&#8217;s resolutions.&nbsp; Did you make any?&nbsp; For Steelray, New Year&#8217;s resolutions take the form of annual objectives.&nbsp; This year, we&#8217;ve made two big resolutions. 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