Articles for category: Drive

May 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Be the Conduit

A conduit is a pipe, it is a delivery system for getting work done and shipping materials from Point A to Point B. That is their job, and as a leader, that is a part of your job to. Working with your team to get Code from A to B. Growing your team from C to D. Implementing Innovation from E to F. Not everyone knows the path, the direction, the pipe they need to take. That’s why they come to you, the conduit, because they know, no matter what challenges lay ahead, you always find a way to make

May 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

Where you at?

When I ask a developer where they are at in their work, I’m not looking for the rosy picture, the hopeful optimist or any other unicorn answer. I’m asking for where they think they are and what they have left to do. To be honest, I’d rather they lean to the side of being a little more realistic (or if you want to call that negative). Why do I want this? So I can provide them the insulation they need to get the job done that they need to do and that I trust them to do. Straight, simple, direct

May 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Job Description

Is not what you were meant to do, it’s a guide, a prescription for what you need to achieve. If you accomplish your roles in a different manner and still maintain success you are doing things right. If you are redefining your job description to meet the needs of your team and company you are doing things right. If you are being challenged, growing and learning you are doing things right. Job descriptions are an idea of what is needed at that moment in time for what we think someone will do when they get into that position. They are

May 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

Writing Code for Someone’s Idea

You can write code to do anything you want. That’s the beauty of software development, you can write code to do anything you want. As in drawing, whatever you can imagine, you have the potential to go through all the ups and downs, research, google searching and everything else to try and make whatever is in your head a reality. That’s the beauty of it. When someone asks you (as invariably happens to every single software developer) you can write code for them as well. From here there are two paths you can then go down… You can start writing

May 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team Events in a Remote World

I wanted to find a way to have a team event that wasn’t going to be repetitive from what we had had recently. We’d done the Take Out Tuesday and the odd drinks but those were just a few people chatting. This needed to be for 30+ people who I wanted to have a good laugh and also very much pat them on the back for the great work that they had been doing. What I came up with was a game of – “How well do you know your team?” – with the wink being towards how long we