Month: July 2021

July 16, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s Your Manual?

We all have one. It’s our internal guide for when we start a new team, a new project, a new job, a new something. It’s the four to fourteen steps on what we do when starting up. If you’re a leader it might look like this; Meet Team Figure out what I do. Meet Manager. Figure out what I need to do. Where is code? Schedule One-On-Ones And the list goes on and on, however long it is for you and the pieces and how many they number are all up to you. We all have manuals, some are more

July 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

Focus on Your Niche

You can’t be everything to everyone. It’s impossible. I realized this a number of years ago as a developer when new frameworks started popping up every day. I couldn’t learn them all and be good at all of them. But I could be good at some of them. Real good. Awesome good. Find your niche, own it, make it your own. Don’t be everything to everyone.

July 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Working in the Gutters

I’m fascinated with the Gutters. For all you comic book lovers out there, the Gutters are the space between the panels where the real action happens. It’s where our brains cross over from Panel A to Panel B and our brains intuit what is happening in between. The same applies to your meetings, the Gutters is where the real work happens, between Meeting 1 and Meeting 2. It’s where the success of Meeting 2 is evaluated against if the actions from the previous meeting were implemented. The Gutters are where the magic happens, it’s where the hard work happens, it’s

July 13, 2021

Greg Thomas

Build Your Own Bug Pile

On any project I lead, I encourage Devs to log bugs. Log them all day, every day. That’s the job. You find an issue, you log it. You break something, you log it. No one has an infallible memory and if you are never logging bugs, all you are doing is making yourself look like a slow developer on that one task or story you are desperately trying to complete. Show them what you are really doing, all the edge cases you are seeing, all the extra things you are thinking of as you build this new system. Build your

July 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

I finished… but it doesn’t work

Then you haven’t finished. It’s not rocket science, it’s not even basic science. If what you have finished doesn’t do what was intended, then you are not finished. You are just getting started, on your way to getting finished.

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