Month: January 2017

January 24, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Rebuild or the Rebuy

When we rebuild something, we take the problem, deconstruct it to it’s bare bones and fix it with what we have. When we rebuy something, we identify the problem, build some requirements and hope the purchase of a solution will fix our problem. Rebuilding involves understanding the problem from beginning to end and investing yourself into design, development and deployment of the solution. Rebuying involves less effort being spent on development and hopefully more on the actual implementation. Good developers know that when they rebuild, they are learning, developing and growing. Great developers know when they need to make the hard

January 23, 2017

Greg Thomas

What’s your Bonus?

Are you driven by how much you can learn in a year? Is it the watch you get in 5 years? Is it the people you get to meet and growth with? Are you driven by an end of year salary increase? Is it being able to pay off your house with your end of year bonus? Is the opportunity to take on new projects and challenges? Whatever it is, it’s yours for the taking, no one else is going to go for it, you put it there, it has your name on it and now it’s on you to go

January 20, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Team Roadtrip

If you lead a team and have not gone with your team on any of the following; Conference Customer Meeting On-Site Deployment Sales Presentation Something, anything, where you and members of your team worked hard towards a common goal that is now resulting in a trip somewhere. You owe it to them to find a way to get them there with you for any and all of the reasons below (choose whichever ones help); Watch what a developer does when asked a tough sales question Stay up late and fix a customer’s system Wake up early to setup your booth for the

January 19, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Freelancer’s Dilemma

Is simply that not everyone gets it. Not everyone understands Why so much effort goes into one customer Why all of your work isn’t readily copied from customer to customer Why you don’t bill for those extra hours that took the project from cacophony to symphony Why your billing cycles are erratic Why the customer relationship is more important than the customer’s balance sheet Why growth isn’t a hockey stick but instead some gradual curve over a long period of time Why working from home, or a coop But if you do isn’t that all that really matters?

January 18, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Appeal of Turning Off

We all yearn for it, we all desire it and yet we focus it down to a 2 – 3 week sprint during our favourite seasonal time of the year. In that bit of time, we put all our hopes and dreams into that short sprint hoping that somehow we come back rejuvenated and ready to take on the world again. To achieve that goal – we turn off – block everything out, focus on just us, ignore everything around us. Decompress. Relax. Unwind. Maybe what we really need to do is figure out how to turn off throughout every other week

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