Month: November 2019

November 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

Great, Everything has Changed

Two weeks ago, Microsoft wrapped up its yearly Ignite Conference and before long, Apple and Google will have their big conferences again. Amazon and Facebook will have theirs. And everything will change again. All that code you wrote will now need to be upgraded to a new platform. That product you were working on was done in half the time by twice as many people. The idea you had is already being worked on and set for release next month. What you designed for the customer might as well wait until they start using the new stuff. This is technology,

November 21, 2019

Greg Thomas

Sometimes, you need to Act Like It

No one is born into a role. Everyone wants to a police officer at the age of two, but no one actually is. Just like no one tells you the day you are going to lead a team. It just kind of happens, maybe you had an inkling something was going to change, maybe it was a formal promotion to being a manager but now there it is in front of you – you are a Leader. It’s not easy stepping into a new role, it’s always scary, even if it’s just one set of eyeballs staring back at you.

November 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Status Meeting Replacements

An Open SLACK Channel. A OneNote shared with everyone. A Basecamp project that everyone can post to. A Google Doc that everyone fills in. A text file that everyone updates. A conference call where people jump on if they have a problem but don’t need to attend if they don’t? There are so many options available to you and your team that can solve the problem you are having with people not attending status meetings on time, not having anything of value to say, not needing to hear what others are saying, having problems logging in and on and on

November 19, 2019

Greg Thomas

Serious Technical Debt

I live in a city where a certain LRT implementation has gone off the rails. It’s not going well. One day it will recover, but until then, all the problems we are currently encountering will continue as we all hold on for the growing pains that are sure to come with it. That’s where Technical Debt hurts us – not in the code being old, obsolete or hard to maintain – but in the people, the team having to use it. A local radio show host made the suggestion that we all as developers have one faced with a hill

November 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

AI Go Boom

If you’re looking for an example of AI going rogue, you don’t have to go far, you only need to look at Apple and Goldman Sach’s recent problems with their Credit Card Scoring. And let’s not forget Microsoft’s Twitter AI Bot. Is AI bad? No. But like anything, like humans, delivering to the one, to the few, to a group, to a company is a significantly different proposition then delivering to a province, a state, a country, a world. We as humans cannot do it overnight, no matter how much data you throw our way, we simply cannot process it,

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