Month: December 2022

December 11, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leave the What Ifs for Later

In every problem you are working on, there are always a number of What Ifs to figure out – after all, it’s a problem – that you don’t know how to solve. But if you give into each and every what if that comes up, you’ll never get to solve the problem and will be left drowning in an innumerable setup of What Ifs for life. Isolate the problem, focus on the immediate, save the What Ifs for when you get deeper and they apply. Remember the goal is to fix the problem, not rebuild the entire system.

December 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

Knowing your Performance Baseline

When doing Performance work, the first place you always need to start with is knowing your baseline. If you don’t know your baseline, you will not know what tools to build, what tests to run, and where to move forward to. How do you hit your baseline? You send it traffic, then you up, measure it, if it’s still working, up it some more.  You keep upping it until it falls over and then you go to the test before where things worked – that’s your baseline. Without a proper baseline, all you are doing is throwing darts in a

December 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Knowledge Window

When someone leaves your team, there is a window from the point when they announce when they are leaving to when they actually leave.  That window is the amount of time you have to get all of the training this person has learned in their time with you and download it to another person. These are the interactions you don’t want to push off and you want to kick off as soon as possible to see what you need to learn from them. Guaranteed as soon as you have that first meeting, you will see the immediate need for second,

December 7, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Plan for the Plan to Plan the Plan

It’s akin to the meeting for the meeting. Or the email to send an email. If you’re having a meeting to discuss the plan, then come up with your plan but don’t have a meeting to plan the plan that you are going to create. You’ll always get more traction by showing up with something and whether it gets torn apart, upgraded, or left as is – it will be a much better starting point.

December 6, 2022

Greg Thomas

Only the Team Can Win

If you’re not on a team, it’s all you, there is no “we”, it’s just you, and that’s fine. But when you’re on a team, no matter what your role, you’re on a team, and that means only the team can and will ever will.

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