Month: October 2021

October 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team State Engines

Your team deserves to know what the plan is for the next year. They deserve to know what is coming next and what the plans are. They should know when the unknowns are coming at them and they are going to have to pivot and figure the rest out. They should know what the goals are and where you want to take them. Your team is an engine (huge difference from a factory) and if they don’t know what they should be doing when, how they work together or what they are going to need to do to handle the

October 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

When it all Crashes

Yesterday Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all took a powder on a global scale. When I went to Facebook, it was a 404, when I went to Instagram, I had what last loaded with a cute message saying it can’t load new items, but all my old ones were cached so I could go check them out. I didn’t bother with WhatsApp. The question isn’t about which one handled it better, which was more graceful or did a better job of keeping their customers up to date as to what was happening. The question is what will your app do on

October 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

End of the Code

I don’t mind the no code movement. But code will never go away. That’s not some kind of die-hard statement on the future of no-code – it will succeed and bring its platform to the masses. But someone is going to have to write all that code. And that’s going to be a lot of fun.

October 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

Taking a Step Back

There is never enough time to take a step back and figure out what is wrong. Never. Ever. Until it breaks and then you have a ton of time on your hands to figure it all out, design the perfect solution and fix everything that was wrong. That’s odd, I thought there wasn’t enough time?

October 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Team ToDo List

We all have ToDo Lists for all sorts of things. Depending on what you’re working on now, you might have one for a particular team activity – the upcoming project plan, the completion of a feature, the final code rush. Whatever it is, it’s a ToDo list for the team. And its only value is if the Team is following it – otherwise, it’s just a list.

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