Articles for category: Delivery

August 1, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Opening Act

When you go to see a live band, there is a complete dichotomy to the Opening and the Main Acts. Generally… The Opening Act will be a little smaller, possibly more intimate, driven only by their energy and their crowd to become bigger than themselves and reach all these people out there.  After all, they have yet to “make it” and are still trying to get the word out on who they are (in some cases, you don’t even know them).  You can feel the enthusiasm and desire they have for becoming something and getting their work out there.  The

July 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

Impress Yourself

It’s not enough to impress the person sitting next to you, the person you report to, the people on your team or the customers you interact with. They are not the ones that go to bed at night thinking – “wow they really did impress me today”. No, it’s the other way around where you will go to bed thinking – “I might have made them happy, but I held back and could have done better, should have done better”. Go to bed having impressed yourself, if you do that, the rest will fall into place.

July 15, 2016

Greg Thomas

Does the Code ever leave the building?

Never. If you coded for 10 years, and then stopped because you had to focus on the growth and mentoring of others and didn’t have the opportunity to sit down in front of a keyboard and punch out brackets and semi-colons in your free time are you no longer considered a coder? No. What if you simply became bored with what you were building and tried your hand at other pursuits for a period of time, are you no longer considered a coder? No. What if you never coded and just today read Chapter 1 of how to do Python

July 11, 2016

Greg Thomas

Bring on the Fail

Some days I write a great article that gets tons of views. Some days the post I compose is so hot my keyboard melts. Some days when I am back in the code, I’m amazed and how well it works. And some days… it’s the complete opposite… but on those days I tried to write something new… something I’m not quite sure what it fully meant and how it entered my consciousness, but it was an idea that I thought – “let’s run with it and see what happens”. So sometimes it’s a fail, but from it, the practice and

July 8, 2016

Greg Thomas

Be the Starter and the Closer

In baseball, you have Starters and Closers. Starters get the game going and if their good, generate a lead big enough so that anyone can close. Closers finish up what the Starter began.  The really good ones, take a potential failure from a Starter and turn it around into a win. You can have good Starters (they get the projects going, establish the architecture, get things up and running) and you can have good closers (they save the day on production issues, adjust designs when problems go astray and generally make them a success). Or you can me in that

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