Articles for category: Drive

December 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s Wrong with our Meetings?

Think back to the last time you had a great meeting, one that truly blew your mind and left you feeling satisfied. Chances are it wasn’t in the last few months. Greater chances are that it was even longer than that. If you knew your meetings for the next week and the week after we’re going to be exactly the same, leave you feeling exactly the same way – would you still attend them? Or would you be willing to take the time to figure out how to make them better? The questions aren’t complicated – it simply boils down

December 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your List Just Got Longer

Because now you have all this other stuff to deal with that two days ago you didn’t have to do. Now things need putting together, patching and updating. Now your time is being pulled in different directions as everyone wants their piece delivered first but you are only one person. And of course, you have your own list of goods you want to work on. So the question is – where do you start? You could start with the riskiest or go to the quick wins to make the list shorter?  You could go with the stuff that costs the

December 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

My Learning Focus

Not big on broadcasting what I’m focusing on but sometimes good to write it down to remind myself why I’m doing it. Areas where I want to focus on in the coming months; Typescript and its application to projects I’m working on AWS/GCP  – always good to see how the other side of the world lives (or in this case the majority of it) Meetings – why do they continue to be broken after the last two years when it’s all we have done. Delivery of Leadership Programs – how to get the message out there My core four I

December 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Why Attend a Meeting?

If I’m at a meeting and I’m not doing any of the following; Presenting Answering questions or contributing to the conversation Typing questions into the chat Keeping myself off of video Then I ask myself why am I here?  Maybe it’s an odd one where nothing was directed my way or maybe, I just don’t need to be there? The common thread against all four of those bullet points is engagement, interaction, and intent.  If I am not needed, that is a function of the meeting, if I am choosing not to be to be a part of the meeting

December 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Edge Case Test

I’m not the greatest QA tester.  I’m not even sure if you’d consider me mid-level. But I know the results of what happens when you don’t test properly when all you focus on is the happy path and never consider what might go wrong. Edge cases aren’t my master but they do sit at the back of my mind, driving the course of development so I can be sure they are accounted for in what I deliver.  I might screw them up the first few times, but when I go to the demo, they would have been thought of and

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