Articles for category: Drive

October 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

Zoom Barriers

It doesn’t matter what you’re using, you know it and I know it, there is a barrier between you and the person you’re talking to. Maybe TEAMS does it better than ZOOM. Maybe SLACK does it better than TEAMS. Maybe HANGOUTS is all you need. Maybe you’ve given up and started dialing people on your phone. Whatever it is, you know it, your team is feeling it and you need to do something about it. Not tomorrow, not next week, but today. Don’t get caught accepting any barriers that are coming up with how you interact with your team, it’s

October 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

Carve Out Time to Play

We are day in and day out in the office. Whether you are working somewhere remotely for your company or working from home, you are pulling in more bandwidth to the office then you ever thought possible. Everyone is worried about what is coming next and it’s seeping into our psyche (if it hasn’t already). If you are a consultant/contractor, you are taking on as many projects as you can right now in case of what might come next. Personal Development is going out the window because finding time is getting harder and harder. Find the time, 30 minutes, something,

October 22, 2020

Greg Thomas

Requirements are a Story

It doesn’t matter what methodology you are using. Your requirements are a story. They are a story that people want to read like a book. They want to read it so badly that they can never put it down. They want to be consumed by it. They want to never stop reading it. They want it to be the bestseller they never knew about. They want to be blown away by it. And they want to be so inspired by it that they go and build the best software you have ever seen. That is what your requirements need to

October 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

Iterate… Iterate… Iterate

The best way to get better? Keep Iterating. Keep starting over and trying again. Keep pushing forward. Keep delivering something new. Keep learning. Keep growing. Keep pushing. You might change what you are iterating to or what you are changing – that’s okay, but whatever you do, don’t stop.

© 2025 Rambli by Greg Thomas. All rights reserved.