Articles for category: Delivery

March 13, 2021

Greg Thomas

Building Communities

On one of our most recent episodes of Remotely Prepared we spoke with Bekah Hawrot Weigel on the importance of creating Communities and all she has done with her developer community VirtualCoffeeIO. Bekah has a great story to share on all that she has worked through during the Pandemic, going remote, being there for her family and on top of all of that – building an incredible community loved and used by Developers all over the world. Take a listen. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/building-community-with-bekah-hawrot-weigel

March 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Change in Virtual Interviews

Interviews are changing, they have changed. The remote interview is no longer the outlier, it’s now the standard. Over the phone interviews are being replaced by video interviews in your own living room with your family working in the background. Sure you might still be getting those 4 – 7 hour take home coding interviews (another story in of itself) but for the most part you are not going in to have interviews in person. What does this mean for you? Is that committee of 5 people all going to sign in at once to stare down this one person?

March 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Jumping In

When starting a new book series, or a new game – do you go through all the myriad of titles and expansions that came before it so you can “understand” what is happening now? To play a Call of Duty or Fortnite game, did you need to play every other game before it so you can know everything there is before starting? No, one it would be costly, two it would probably be a bit boring (let’s be honest), as you force yourself through all these old games and consoles. Then why do this with a new project? The beauty

March 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Time to Turf the Green Icon

If you’re still sitting down at your desk and checking to see who is “Green” and ready to go. You’re missing the point. I wrote about this early in the Pandemic when everyone went remote – Forget the Green Icon – because immediately I saw people staring down that icon and using it as the primary barometer to see whether their teams were contributing. The truth behind those icons, they are aggregates or estimates on what is happening on those devices. There are APIs and SDKs that let you program what state you want to be in and you as

March 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s your Lead Time?

Whenever I ask for a quote from a contractor, the follow-up question is always – “What’s the Lead Time to when you can start?” Always I ask this question, because as someone running their own company, with a variety of clients, I know that when I don’t get asked this question it inevitably means I need to curb their thoughts. Translation = I can’t start tomorrow I think this question doesn’t get asked enough? Instead we keep making that dangerous assumption that this person will push everything out of their life, sacrifice everything they have spent years building up and

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