Month: September 2019

September 23, 2019

Greg Thomas

Want Job?

I received an email recently from a recruiter recently that only consisted of the title of the job in the subject line and a copied description in the body. No – hello. No – what’s up. No – what do you think. The goal was for me to respond with either a yes or no before a real conversation took place. That was the gate and it was up to me to decide what to do next, to see if this job title piqued my interest. The truth was it did, but ten minutes later I got an email from

September 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Don’t Binge Your Project

TV used to create tension. Each week you’d finish watching what was on the TV and have to WAIT until the next week to see what happened (and God forbid a rerun was inserted in there to prolong your wait). That’s tension, that’s having to wait for something to happen. Better yet, it builds anticipation, you would change your schedule so you can be home at that exact time to ensure you missed none of the show. It didn’t matter what if you watched 5 commercials beforehand, you were going to see all of it. In the Netflix era, everything

September 19, 2019

Greg Thomas

Onboarding a new Team

No one ever asks you to onboard a new team when there is nothing to do. It’s not a thing. There is always pressure. Always work. Always demand. Always the need for it to have shipped yesterday. So now that you know what you’re up against, build a plan that onboards your new team taking into consideration all those emotions that they are feeling. Reassure them that they will get there, listen to their feedback, count to ten, whatever it takes for you to stay calm and get things working with them. If they are super green, they will have

September 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

Finished

I finished a big project I’ve been working on for a few years. Yup it took that long, between multiple starts and stops, being worried about how it’d turn out and not sure if it’d ever get done, I finished. Here’s how I did; I let the voice in my head that kept saying it was garbage to keep talking and sat down at the keyboard and pounded out intervals and intervals of work. I broke the day into intervals, what was finished was finished, what wasn’t would move onto the next interval. I got help from people that knew

September 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

You can get it wrong

You can put your best work out there for months and months and have it on shuffle all the while it is wrong. It’s never written in stone. You can always write an update. Always deploy a patch. Always, update the policy. Always admit that you’re wrong and try again. (but it’s the last one that kills us, because that’s the one that forces us to admit we got it wrong and move forward). Easier said, than done.

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