Month: February 2021

February 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

What can I do for my Team?

It doesn’t matter what your role is – developer, product manager, QA, business analyst, tester, leader, manager – the question is still and always will be the same. What can I do for my Team? When it’s all hands on deck and everyone is trying to get a release out the door, it might be something as simple as ordering the takeout (been there). When we’re knee deep in a design session on a customer problem that is going nuclear on us, it could be as simple as pushing out that update meeting. When we’re trying to write requirements while

February 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

The “Extra” Remote Work

We know we’re all doing it. We check our email another few times. We put the polish on that last piece of code, work, idea so we can “jump” in tomorrow. We try to replicate our old routines in the remote world but they don’t quite fit so then we try and figure them out a little more. When it’s just you that’s remote, the extra isn’t as much as it normally is, but when everyone is remote, the extra grows, it grows because we’re all in the same boat and we’re all trying to figure it out. Put the

February 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

Debugging and Troubleshooting

If you can do either, you’re a developer ahead of the game of many others. These are two of the most important skills when becoming a developer because at their core they speak to creating and fixing code. Debugging – Walking through your own code to see if there are errors and/or running your own code to replicate errors. Troubleshooting – Getting an error sent to you that requires you to dig through the code you built and the tools you have given yourself to identify the source of the problem. One supports the other. Over time, I have become

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