July 4, 2016

Greg Thomas

Defining your Code Velocity

Some people, generally do some things faster than others and vice-versa. You can estimate all you want and task it out all you want, but at the end of the day, that’s what it comes down. Velocity, when defined, is the speed of something moving in a given direction. The faster someone goes is the easiest (and generally most obvious) way to measure velocity. But it’s not the only way… accuracy redundancy readability transition understanding reduced bug count These are all factors that can shape your velocity and show that what you are shipping is more than simply code before

July 1, 2016

Greg Thomas

When Culture hits the Road

There are lots of books on culture – how to build it, how to create, what is valued within it, etc, etc. It’s impressive, a 7 letter word carries so much weight in our society today – the thing everyone wants, the thing everyone craves, the hardest to identify and the least successful when rubber hits the road. The books I really enjoy reading are those that focus on the author looking back at decisions they made in Company X, what could have been, what should have been, what worked, what didn’t and what the end result was. The books