Month: October 2021

October 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

Where the Release is at?

Only one person on a project ever knows where the release is truly at. Whether it’s the person that’s taking the sum of the parts or the person responsible for their own team’s part – there is always that one person on every project that has the most intimate knowledge as to what is being released. They don’t need to feel the pulse, they are the pulse, and they release pulsates at every right and wrong through them. They don’t do all the work to get it out the door, but they do know what all the work is required

October 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

It’s the Waiting…

Is it the duration that kills us? The unknown? If we knew, would we care how long it would take? If we knew how long we’d have to wait but still knew that it was an unknown would it still drive us up the wall waiting for the answer? Does it matter how many times you hit refresh or pull down on your notifications? It doesn’t. Sometimes all you can do is wait.

October 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Everyone is waiting for you to Lead

You don’t need the title. You never needed it before, so why are you waiting for it now? If it’s the title that matters, give it to yourself. If that’s what you need to lead your team, give yourself the best title you can think of, print it up, and put it on your desk. We’re all home now, who’s going to see it? Take it a step further and make a fancy name card and put it on your desk – forget gold on black, go platinum on diamond so it really stands out and catches the light when

October 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Always Be Refactoring

I have spent most of this week refactoring code. Tweaking it. Optimizing it. Tracking it. Making it more performant, trying to figure out what does and doesn’t work and work, debugging through a mountain of bugs, and generally… making it work. It’s not simple work, it’s frustrating, it’s time-consuming, but it’s always eye-opening how the beauty of simplifying your work, has the potential to work that much better.

October 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Make the Call to Fix the Real Problem

Years ago, I was building a new deck, and there was a curve in the wood. It wasn’t perfect, it was pretty obvious and in my inexperience, I thought we could cover it up with deck boards. I was wrong, it would have looked horrible. Thankfully I had my father-in-law to set me straight. We then proceeded the next 2 hours unscrewing it, hammering, jacking it, doing whatever we could to gain leverage and bend that curve. By the time we were done, it looked 1000% better and the final result would not have been as good if we didn’t

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