Articles for category: Drive

June 24, 2020

Greg Thomas

Writing Features as Challenges

Whenever we write requirements, we start off with a great big vision that we want to achieve. This is great in theory but when people read it, especially if they are mid to end of the release and work is not going well, they instinctively push it aside for – “nice to haves”, “if we can get to it”, “maybe next sprint”. But if we switch our mindset and instead write our features as challenges we want to hit – we change our frame of reference to something we want to attain. Can we implement a chatbot for simple issues

June 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

Everyone is Going Remote

On this week’s episode of Remotely Prepared – we talk about all the announcements that have been coming out as of late on the big companies going remote. Oddly enough, it sounds like we are ripping it to shreds whereas we do think it’s great. The way I am thinking about this big, monumental change in my mind is that if everyone decided they were going to switch from iPhones to Android – would we have the resources, the time, the necessary tools, to help people make that change? Great content. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way

June 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Momentum comes in all Forms

Don’t be fooled into thinking there is only one speed and that is the only speed of innovation, creativity, ambition, excellence, perseverance, direction and vision which culminates into momentum. There are many speeds to momentum, we all have it, we all go different speeds depending on the issue being worked on and resolved to. It’s not a race, if it was we all we would have loss, because when we boil it down to what we are all good at, we all have a variety of momentums for whatever it is that we do. And now that you know, remind

June 4, 2020

Greg Thomas

Handling Traffic

When a light goes down at an intersection, one of two things will occur. Either the system’s back-up response will kick in that everyone knows and understands or a new response will take shape. In the case of a light going down the back-up response here is everyone waiting their turn, while they wait for the next person to go (on their right). The process isn’t perfect, traffic is slowed down, but it goes, it works and we can get by until the system comes back online. The other option is, for someone to get out of their car and

June 3, 2020

Greg Thomas

Customers Shouldn’t Chase for Support

When I get a call from about a problem I’m encountering, when I have reached out the company instead of having to call them myself – that is golden. Not because I demand that they call me, but because I know they want to help me work through the problem, get to the other side and keep using their software and product. When working on a customer’s problem, I try my best to chase them down too – can we schedule a time to work on it, can you send me logs, are there screenshots, what were the steps you

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