Articles for category: Delivery

December 4, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Final Straw

Conflict in the workplace is nothing new – there is always someone you are not going to get along with, not see eye to eye with, butt heads with, etc, etc.  We’ve all worked with those people that we think are coasting through the day, leaving their work to others to pick up and take on. There are two paths to handling this situation – either confront them about it and find ways to work with them to make it better or walk away. This isn’t about walking away – that’s easy, push your chair back from the table stand-up,

December 2, 2015

Greg Thomas

Remember when you were the Newbie

I had something else in mind to write about tonight, but then in the middle of a break watched this video and immediately started laughing.  I don’t know what the context is (I don’t watch Scandal) but it brought me back to my first day starting with an ASP Hoster out of University – having other developers throwing projects and code at me and literally freaking out the whole day that I was 6 hours away from being fired when I wouldn’t be able to fix the shopping cart so customers could start buying again.  I went home that night and read all

November 30, 2015

Greg Thomas

Selling Yourself

This is the last thing anybody wants to do, it’s not easy, its awkward and everyone always worries how they come off. But it’s a necessity to life – especially in technology. Whether it be to an interview, a performance review or meeting someone at a conference for the first time, at some point you are going to have to Sell Yourself… not for the sale… but for the you. Now this not about shilling the product you just spent 8 months working on, no this is about you the person having to show your team, your leader, your peers,

November 25, 2015

Greg Thomas

Forget the Ranking

Early on, it was very important for me to delineate myself between a Junior, Intermediate and Senior Developer – after all there is a certain cachet associated with being that “type” of developer. I’m no longer a junior, those tasks should be handled by a junior, I’m and Intermediate now – give some meatier problems to solve. The thing is – every problem is a junior problem if you don’t know anything about it, even to the most seasoned veteran.  Worked with databases all your life and now you’re having to build a Web UI?  Welcome to juniorsville. I remember

November 9, 2015

Greg Thomas

How to Make Great Software Estimates

Well, I decided to take everything that I’d done in my recent series on Software Estimation and throw into a Slide deck with some added thoughts to it. So here it is – everything you ever wanted to know about Good Software Code Estimation in one handy deck. https://www.slideshare.net/GregThomas3/how-to-make-great-software-estimates

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