Articles for category: Drive

May 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

Can you Stick the Landing?

Sticking the Landing is what gymnasts do when they perform a complicated trick and land perfectly (preferably without breaking an ankle). Everything up to that point is evaluated but what matters is ” Can they Stick the Landing?” Can they finish it with a flawless ending. And you know when the gymnast has stuck it because their smile lights up the stadium – it’s that good. If you want the higher score, if you want the success, you have to be able to stick the landing, that’s what sticks (sorry) in people’s minds. The question, as a developer, is do

May 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

There is Always Time for A Comeback

Queue up your favourite movie of the down and out hero/heroine who is trying to get it together and we’ll all cheer for their comeback story. We all love a comeback story because the perception is that the loser now wins (even though they were never a loser to begin with, but I digress). The only message to take from these movies, is that there is always time for a comeback. Yes, yours will not happen in the span of ninety minutes, and many not even two weeks. It might take months, possibly years. But you can have a comeback,

May 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

That Meeting

We all have “That” meeting. The one we dread. The one we dont’ want to attend. The one we already know what is going to be said, how people will respond, and how it will end. What if YOU could change that meeting? What if YOU could make it better? What if YOU knew what could be done to make it better? As an attendee of any meeting you always have two rights. Make it better. Stop attending. Number 2 isn’t about giving up, if you’ve tried Number 1 with nothing changing, then it’s time to find a way to

May 17, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Merge

Not the company merge, but the CODE merge. Minor CODE merges aren’t a problem, but the big ones, the ones we have drifted so far apart on for too long, that we have been afraid to merge back in because “it’s not going to be run anytime soon” – those merges, those are the ones that strike fear into a developer’s heart. The first question a developer will ask is – “how long”? And if the answer isn’t “not long”, minds start racing with impacts and outcomes as to what might happen and ways to mitigate what will invariably happen.

May 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

Breaking out of the Box

Every day, you’re in a box. You’re on who knows how many calls per day that are in a box. Whether you’re on video or whether it’s your name in a black box. It’s a box. And that is what you have, at your disposal to get people wanting to hear what you have to say, in a sea of more and more boxes. Blurred backgrounds and pictures of beaches aren’t going to help you. What you have to say, how you respond to what people have to say, how you prepare and what you do after the meeting –