Articles for category: Drive

December 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Closing in on the Streak

At the beginning, if you falter, it doesn’t quite matter, you haven’t established anything yet. You can restart and still be okay with things. In the middle, sure you might be in the early stages of Craptivity, and if you have to restart, it will hurt because you put in so much effort to get there. But in the end, when you are closing in on the streak, this close to hitting the record, about to make it happen. That’s when your fingers get jittery, that’s when you feel the adrenaline searching through. And that’s when you know you are

December 9, 2020

Greg Thomas

Focus

You can be a lot of things to some people (probably not a lot). Or you can be a few things to fewer people, but those things that you focus hard on, you can be really good at (scary good) and have the potential to make a greater impact in those people’s lives. Which would you prefer to be?

December 5, 2020

Greg Thomas

Good Code is Great Art

When code comes together it sings. When a connection breaks and your code keeps running, it’s a symphony. When the environment changes and your code reloads and changes to the new dynamic, it’s a masterpiece. When the keywords and text are flying off your fingers and every time you press F5 it builds correctly, it is dreams coming to life. Good Code is Great Art. It’s not a factory. It’s not a user story. It’s not a backlog item. It’s Art.

November 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

It’s Rally Time

We rally when we’re down, when we’re weak, when we’re feeling kicked so hard that we can’t get up. We look for that “other” gear but can’t find it (where is it? No one knows?) And then you find it. You find it in the weirdest of places. It might be that bug that you’ve been holding onto, the two of you starting at each other from across your keyboard. It might be a User story no one wants to look at or a design problem you have been struggling with. Whatever it is, all it takes is one thing

November 29, 2020

Greg Thomas

Virtual Design

How are you designing solutions with your team these days? Are you designing solutions with your team? Or are you handing it off to them to and hoping they figure it out on their own? If you don’t have the latest or greatest you might need to start getting a little creative in what you do; Building a template in PowerPoint or even paint to get your point across. Augmenting your requirements with workflows to more clearly illustrate your point. Recording yourself trying to figure out the issue or having a demo break. Sharing the whiteboard in a meeting. Whatever

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