Month: October 2019

October 24, 2019

Greg Thomas

Avoid Empire Building

Empire Building happens when we focus on building everything around us, getting all the right laptops and tablets, all the best tables, all the perks, all the bodies, all the chairs, all the everything that goes along with building an empire except doing the one thing that truly matters to building an empire. The requirements, i.e., the work that needs to be done, understanding the problem you are trying to resolve, realizing what order of work needs to be done, etc, etc. It’s the “stuff” that goes into creating an empire. When I say “bodies” I mean the extra bodies,

October 23, 2019

Greg Thomas

Begin with Sprint 0

You don’t start with 1, you start with 0 – Sprint 0. Where you iron out the bugs on how things are going to work. Where you put the team together and see them in action for the first time. Where you proof out the foundation and realize what you have and what you are missing. Where you work with the team to get the requirements for the next iteration. Where you figure out what does and doesn’t matter. Where the seeds for delivery and what everyone will do when certain situations is planned out. Sprint 0 is not about

October 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

If you Don’t want to Hear No

Then don’t ask for feedback. Ask for validation instead, because the answer will always yes (or begrudgingly be yes when you emphasize that you are looking for validation). But if you can handle hearing No, your path to growth will be all the better because of it.

October 21, 2019

Greg Thomas

Focus on How You Code

The WHAT you code will always be the requirements of what you are working on. The WHY you code will always be about your love for it or desire for a paycheck. The WHEN you code will be determined by when you are delivering and could be up to other people. But the HOW you code – what error handling you employ, what libraries you continually update, what syntax you employ, how you push yourself to get better each time, how you always want to try something new – that is always up to you.

October 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

Put up your Hand

Nothing Wrong with Asking for Help In fact, its the one thing we are the most absolute worst at. We have all these preconceived notions of what might happen if we ask for help, what we might look like, what might go wrong that we forget the whole reason we are debating asking for help in the first place. Because we need it.

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