June 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

Everyone Delivers Value

On a project, you have to hold everyone to the same level of excellence, delivery and output. This doesn’t mean that everyone has to churn out 45 hours a week of work. It means that the value of their work that they are churning out is comparable. I can’t talk for what it takes to write brilliant requirements or come up with the latest and greatest test plans that will make your heart sing. I do know, that if you are putting all your efforts into making sure that developers are achieving a high-level of coding standard, you better be

Everyone is Going Remote

On this week’s episode of Remotely Prepared – we talk about all the announcements that have been coming out as of late on the big companies going remote. Oddly enough, it sounds like we are ripping it to shreds whereas we do think it’s great. The way I am thinking about this big, monumental change in my mind is that if everyone decided they were going to switch from iPhones to Android – would we have the resources, the time, the necessary tools, to help people make that change? Great content. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way

June 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Momentum comes in all Forms

Don’t be fooled into thinking there is only one speed and that is the only speed of innovation, creativity, ambition, excellence, perseverance, direction and vision which culminates into momentum. There are many speeds to momentum, we all have it, we all go different speeds depending on the issue being worked on and resolved to. It’s not a race, if it was we all we would have loss, because when we boil it down to what we are all good at, we all have a variety of momentums for whatever it is that we do. And now that you know, remind

Sayers and Doers

I like it when people do more over what they say. They don’t wait for “IT” to happen, them make “IT” happen. They don’t announce what they are doing, they roll up their sleeves, get in there and do it. They don’t call a meeting to vote on what needs to happen, they do what needs to happen and have a meeting to discuss the outcomes what they learned when they did it. Doers take the risk and let the chips fall where they may, and wherever they do, they pick them back up and start all over again. Want

June 4, 2020

Greg Thomas

Handling Traffic

When a light goes down at an intersection, one of two things will occur. Either the system’s back-up response will kick in that everyone knows and understands or a new response will take shape. In the case of a light going down the back-up response here is everyone waiting their turn, while they wait for the next person to go (on their right). The process isn’t perfect, traffic is slowed down, but it goes, it works and we can get by until the system comes back online. The other option is, for someone to get out of their car and