October 31, 2020

Greg Thomas

It’s Going to Be Different

But that doesn’t mean, you can’t make it better. Everything is changing and now is the chance to make the change you’ve been holding onto. If it’s already going to change, might as well put your own spin on it.

October 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

Zoom Barriers

It doesn’t matter what you’re using, you know it and I know it, there is a barrier between you and the person you’re talking to. Maybe TEAMS does it better than ZOOM. Maybe SLACK does it better than TEAMS. Maybe HANGOUTS is all you need. Maybe you’ve given up and started dialing people on your phone. Whatever it is, you know it, your team is feeling it and you need to do something about it. Not tomorrow, not next week, but today. Don’t get caught accepting any barriers that are coming up with how you interact with your team, it’s

October 28, 2020

Greg Thomas

But Who Owns It?

That’s the problem with problems. No one wants to own them. After all, who wants something that has something inherently wrong with. Sure there are good problems – too much money, too many customers, too much too learn – finding owners for those problems are easy. I’m talking about the problems that keep you up at night. The problems you lose sleep over even when you’re awake. The problems that permeate your every thought. The problems that can make or break a release. We all know the problems exist. But what we don’t know, at many points in time, is

October 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Conference I wanted to Attend

I signed up for a conference that was a few weeks ago. It was a one day event, only a few hours. I really to wanted to go to it to see what I could get out of it. It’s the third one I’ve missed since being remote was supposed to make going to virtual conferences that much easier. When I was “at” a conference, I could leave the laptop at the hotel, come back to it at the end of the day and work on whatever issue might have been there. That separation existed. Now the conferences I want