Articles for category: Drive

June 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

Feeding Off Each Other

I don’t like have meetings for the sake meetings. But I do like getting people in a room to discuss a problem, always ensuring it’s the right people. If it’s two developers working in the same area across one problem, let’s have a quick fifteen to talk about it. I like this, because inevitably, once we get into it, the magic starts and they begin to feed off of each other. Their ideas, their designs, their problems, their counter-proposed solutions, it’s what makes being on a team so great in the first place. Don’t silo them when looking at problems,

May 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Next…

App. Game. Project. Team Member. Opportunity. Book. There is always a “NEXT” something, and if you want it to succeed, you better make sure you are prepared to do the work that goes into that NEXT thing. Because if you’re not, it won’t be the NEXT thing, but just a thing you put some energy into that didn’t go anywhere.

May 25, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s your Capacity?

In agile, there is a concept called “Capacity”, drilled down further to be in a per sprint cycle – “Sprint Capacity”. A sprint is a block of time in which you set out to accomplish a particular task, generally 2 – 3 weeks, capacity is the allocation you have to complete a certain amount of work in that time period. A typical developer, dedicated to one sprint (let’s say it is 2 weeks) might be 5 – 6 hours a day (giving leeway for some non-sprint meetings, bathroom breaks, and other things). From here you are looking at approximately 50

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,

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