Articles for category: Drive

July 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

Sharing My Screen

It’s now normal, everyone knows how to do it right? Great. So that means we can… Have ready what we want to share. Have tried it out ourselves the first time. Troubleshooted what goes wrong. Hide all the stuff people don’t want to see. On a side note, it has been interesting to see how some screen-sharing tools have evolved during this time of extreme usage and others have made it as painfully awkward as trying to find the right cable to plug into your laptop and hope that it works.

July 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

What Worries me about Going Back to the Office

Apart from the normal health restrictions, there is only one thing that worries me about going back to the office. That all the good habits we developed over the course of the last 18 – 24 months will be thrown away and we’ll go back to our old ways of doing things. Not hiring the best worker, but the best worker around here. Forcing people into meeting rooms that don’t need to be there. Awkward gatherings that no one wants to attend. Less empathy, more cohersion. Barriers that existed for many will rise up once again. I hope it doesn’t

July 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

Paper and Pen Beat Screen

They do, they always will. Sorry, you can’t beat them (am I really sorry)? The other day I had to review a list of client requirements and get together with them for a bunch of questions to figure out what was what. To date, everyone’s been sharing documents on a screen and we slowly plod through them as we make comments, discuss format, add in pieces, re-add in pieces. This is the new world of collaboration. For this particular meeting, I printed it all out, I marked it up on my own and what I needed to do. The next

July 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

Huddles vs Meetings

At the first sound of a new meeting, there is a sigh (not of relief) but of dread. Another block of time in your day is taken up by a discussion of sorts that may or may not lead to something productive. Over the past year, we’ve been inundated with meetings that have given them the worst name than they already had before. At the first sound of a huddle, your immediate thought is – “What”s that? Is that the sports thing where they come up with a plan and do something?” That sounds cool? Yeah, let’s do a huddle.

July 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

Software Built on Trust

I’ve written on this topic before in a few places (actually quite a few times based on a quick search of this site). But I decided to expand on it a bit for a recent LinkedIn article. If you’re building software, if you want to build great software, you need to start with trust. To take from the article…  Software Built on Trust starts with Development but it permeates it’s way through Product Management, Sales, Finance, everywhere the organization depends on that delivery. That’s what you can do when starting with the fundamentals of Software Built on Trust.