What would Mike Holmes do?

It’s our new slogan when we are determining how to solve a problem.

For all you non Canadians, Mike Holmes is a general contractor who has won the hearts of Canadians by doing things right. In a recent Readers’ Digest survey, he was named the second most trusted name in Canada.

When a recent ‘improvement’ request was submitted to our project management system the first thing that popped into our minds was:

How are we going to do this? It will mean redoing a whole subsystem to do it right

The business smart response would have been to hack something together on top of the existing subsystem, but at that crucial decision making moment … out of the corner someone yelled “What would Mike Holmes do?”, and instantly there was no question, the system was getting built from the ground up properly to accomodate the improvement requested and potentially other cool things in the future.

We’ve been operating with this slogan for quite sometime,  it was about time that it got publicized in the hopes other developers take on the same approach.