Month: November 2017

November 16, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Clueless Leader

Isn’t the most demotivating feeling in the world when your leader has no idea what you are doing, how you are doing it, why you are doing it and as a result why it’s taking longer than expected. After all, aren’t they the ones that identified the work to be done and triaged it to you? Aren’t they the ones responsible for the end deliverable? Shouldn’t they have a little more knowledge in what they are responsible for so they can talk about it with confidence and passion to others and understand how and why you might be taking longer

November 15, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Angry Helper

The Angry Helper is the person who begrudgingly agrees to help you. They bemoan the process the whole time, bitter in the fact that they have to take time out of their day to help you figure out this “simple” problem that only they can understand. What you say and do is never enough to help, it was done wrong the first time and it will be done wrong the second and third and fourth time. And then they leave, sure whatever it was might now work, but you can see the wake behind them as they walk away, onto

November 14, 2017

Greg Thomas

Breaking…

For where who or when? Why? Does it even matter? Is it fake? Is it true? Do you care? Have you become so desensitized to the word that it means nothing to you? Do you need to go back to when it meant something? Does it matter if you do? Is this the new normal? Do you want to keep reading inane questions about nothing or start doing something of value? That’s the only thing that should be breaking news.

November 13, 2017

Greg Thomas

Refocus

I’ve written about this before, but it always bears mentioning again. Refocusing your efforts isn’t a once year activity, it’s a twice a month, every other month, every month, every week and today activity that you are always working on and working towards. You don’t get better by refocusing on a predefined schedule waiting for “Refocus” day to arrive, you get better by constantly looking at what you do and figuring out what and how you can do it better. Scheduling Refocus time, waiting for it to happen, to arrive, is easy, simple and without any emotion. Doing it all

November 10, 2017

Greg Thomas

Trusting Code More than People

Do you trust the code or your people? When you trust the code you hope it doesn’t break when you ship. you know when it breaks, the customer logs a support case and you ask for logs. it ships when someone pushes it out the door. When you trust the people you know if it does break, your team will be there to fix it. when the customer has an issue, the team will ask how they are using it and what the customer is trying to do before looking at the code the team ships the product when it’s

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