Articles for category: Delivery

August 30, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Nostalgic Coder

Remember when you were a coding machine?  When you could take a requirement, design it in your head and simply start coding like the hero/heroine that you are? When your day was 110% coding and nothing else?  No meetings, no scrums, no design reviews, no nothing. Just pure coding bliss. Why is the act of coding, that as developers,  let us reminisce about the good old days – the best releases we ever did, the best bugs we ever closed, the features that started off as a task but we made so… so much better. Is it because when we

August 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

It’s the Getting Started that Stops Us

What takes more time? Getting started on a new project or jumping into a project you have been working on for the last few weeks? In the former, you don’t know; How long is it going to take? How hard is it going to be? Who will you need to help you finish it? When will you finish it? How many struggles will you have to go through? What, if any, other obstacles will be in our way? That’s the story we tell ourselves because we don’t have answers to these questions, that’s our story. In the latter, the story

August 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

Not Everyone is going to Listen to You

The title might mislead you into this being a bit of a downer post – but instead – it’s about not giving up and continuing that continual push for change.  It’s not easy, Not Everyone is going to Listen to You It’s not easy, if it was, everyone would be doing it.

August 22, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Changing Buffet

When you go to a buffet what do you get? The same things that are on the menu? The same thing you always get? So what’s the allure? Is it that you CAN have a multitude of different items? Is it that you CAN fill your plate multiple times? But we always choose not to? With a plethora of items in front of us, we still gravitate to the same, even though we have perfectly free options in front of us with little to no risk where you can push the plate away if you don’t like and go get a

August 19, 2016

Greg Thomas

Joining a New Group

I don’t jump into new group associations very easily.  I tend to hang back once I’ve joined and get the lay of the land to see how things works. It’s not because I don’t have anything to contribute it’s because I’m trying to figure out how and what I am expected to contribute. You can join a new group on LinkedIn, SLACK, Meetup, EventBrite, etc, etc and immediately start asking for people to check out the new site you built, review your resume, let you write a blog post for them, etc, etc. Or you can start asking what you

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