Month: November 2019

November 29, 2019

Greg Thomas

Late Game Solutions

When you’ve committed to a solution and are midway through the project, you’re in, there is no out (unless it is so bad that everyone is throwing up their hands, toss keyboards over their walls and generally ready to storm the cloud in the hopes of pulling it down). But you’re not there, you’re working with a solution that might not be perfect but it’s 90% of what you need, so sure there is some work to do, but you aren’t dying, the project will survive and people are happy. So in these cases – don’t get frustrated and say

November 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

Worrying about the Days of the Week

We put way too much stock into working about the Days of the Week and the “core” hours that go along with it. If I can, I make every day of the week different – sometimes I do a drop-off, other times I take my time, I might take a bus or drive, I go into different offices. There are days I work like a madman from seven till noon and then stop for the afternoon and pick it up in the evening. Other days I got all day and do nothing at night. I don’t miss any deadlines, my

November 27, 2019

Greg Thomas

That Mindless Time

You need those breaks. The space in between. The pauses in what you are doing. The Mindless Time that enables you to stop and think, pull back, think, pause on what you are doing, reconsider what’s next, plan the direction, move forward. Without you’ll always be chasing fires with no goal in mind.

November 26, 2019

Greg Thomas

Everyone Loves a Good Chart

And why not it shows progress, it shows movement, it shows direction, where things are headed and what our goals are. Except when the data is bad. When the data is bad, all it is is a picture with arrows.

November 25, 2019

Greg Thomas

Progress Bar Magic

Progress Bars in software exist only to keep us entertained while “something” happens. In many cases, they are incorrect and based on the best guess of what might be happening at a particular point in time. They are guesstimates of a calculation that looks at the work to be performed, adds in some variance for connection speed and comes up with a timed estimate for when work will be done. The best project bars keep updating all the time so you know something is being done. The worst ones never change because they are running on the wrong thread and

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