Articles for category: Drive

June 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

Who does the Heavy Lifting?

This is the question you need to ask yourself when it comes to your team. Who does the heavy lifting when it comes to everything you are doing; Coding Team building Leading Scheduling Managing Planning Testing Requirements All of it and of it – what is the heavy lifting in your profession? In your daily grind, what is it that constitutes your heavy lifting? Are you doing it? Who on your team is doing it? Can more than person do it? Why aren’t they sharing it? If you are the one doing all of the heavy lifting, then you are

June 25, 2019

Greg Thomas

Releasing the Kraken (Sometimes)

You can call it crunch time, the last push, the final mile, etc, etc – whatever works for you. In the end it is still overtime. Whether it is paid or not is irrelevant. If I pay you time and a half to work 16 hours for the next four months but the third month you will be burnt out with nothing left to give. What you will be contributing to the project will be declining returns as you start to make mistakes you don’t normally make, making the extra pay worthless. After those four months, after you have shipped,

June 19, 2019

Greg Thomas

Your Breakthrough Moment

This is what you’ve been waiting for. This is what you’ve been working towards. This is what you want so badly it hurts. This is what you’ve stayed up late for and come in early to finish. This is what your team has been building towards. And when it happens, make sure you enjoy it, make sure you soak it in and make sure you take a second to appreciate that moment. Because it didn’t happen overnight.

June 11, 2019

Greg Thomas

Even the Best Get Nervous

I found this YouTube video of Tony Hawk awhile back that was shot as he was trying out a new trick that many of would fine impossible to do. My favourite part in all of it, was the anxiety he felt in trying to do something new, the push to get there, the lumps and bruises he was taking to get there. Your lumps and bruises might not always be on display as you work to achieve a new goal, but they are there. And even the best get nervous when trying something that has never been done before. But