Month: June 2019

June 11, 2019

Greg Thomas

When Speaking Up Goes Sideways

You have an idea to make something better that goes against the grain. You’re tired of watching someone being treated unfairly. The customer that everyone loves is belittling your team’s efforts. The list goes on and on, but you need to speak up, you need to go against the current, popular stream of thought and do something different. And you’ve done it, respectfully, honestly, sincerely. And still everything has gone Sideways. Phrases like “power play”, “taking over”, “being bossy”, “never jumping on board”, “not being a team player”, “disrespecting authority” are being thrown around to push you down so you

June 10, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Project Hoard

Here’s someone you’ll come to meet once or twice in your career – the Project Hoard. The Project Hoard implies exactly what it is – someone who hoards all the projects for themselves. All the development, architecture, design, deployment tasks that are critical to the project being a success, they take it all on, they own it all, they can’t let any of it go, they can’t trust anyone to do it as well as they can, they have to keep it all. And here is the result, every time. They will not deliver on time, they will be late

June 10, 2019

Greg Thomas

How Far You’ve Come

Take a look at these two drawings – they are 15 years apart – done by the Master himself, Jim Lee. The best line – “keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll get there.” That applies to everything – coding, drawing, writing, throwing, building, designing, etc, etc. Always take a moment to appreciate how far you’ve come, it’s the best barometer to teach you where to go.

June 7, 2019

Greg Thomas

Master the Mini

If you are looking to implement a colossal change in your life and/or career. I.e., Run a Marathon or build an iPhone App as examples… And you’re getting nowhere because the goal of what it is you are trying to achieve is simply too big start with getting comfortable with the smallest part of the project. Master the Mini. If it’s an app you are building, focus on the database and how you are going to store data. Or if you need authentication, build the authentication module. If both of those have a significant learning curve, start with one, master

June 6, 2019

Greg Thomas

Communicating your Project Plan

We can all agree that plans are meant to be broken. We’re not meant to follow them to the letter, they are guides, ideas, paths, suggestions on how we want to get there. Some steps were good ideas at the beginning, but at the end are now irrelevant and would be time wasters.  We know this when we’re in the middle of this, when everything is changing and the plan has to adjust – we accept it. But at the beginning, when it’s all new, we become slaves to our plan, to trying to get people to do it our

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