Articles for category: Drive

October 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s In an Options Analysis

The Options. What they are, what’s good about them, what’s bad about them – maybe what the cost is? But more importantly, it’s your recommendation – what you think and why. Anyone can come up with options, but a recommendation, a direction, a path – that’s the real reason you’re doing this – because people want to see what you’ll do when given the reigns to lead and move forward with solving a problem. The next question is whether you lead with the recommendation or hold onto it till the end. You lead with it. Ending with it means you’re

October 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Collision of Versions

DLL Hell was a thing. When you get into the weeds it’s still there. Never assume everyone is and/or can be on the latest and greatest versions of hardware and software. Deprecate the interfaces, don’t break them. Prompt for the upgrade if you need it BEFORE the installation happens. Developers deserved simple lives too!

September 30, 2024

Greg Thomas

Do the Hard Work First

Don’t tell anyone what you’re doing. Don’t brag about it. Don’t post it. Don’t like it or subscribe to it. Just do it. Do the Hard work first, everything else is easy work. Anyone can do the easy work. We need the hard work.

September 25, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Creative Penalty

Standards we follow, they ensure everyone is implementing repeatable work that can be shared amongst the team. I.e., we don’t need to use 7 libraries, we can use 2 and be great with it. Within those 2 libraries, be creative, come up with new ideas, and don’t be fearful of things going wrong. It’s in our creativity that our code and our work improve and grow our team. If you’re leading a team, encourage creativity, if you’re part of a team, you owe it to them to be creative. No one ever grew from doing the same thing over and

September 24, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s the Goal?

Recently I was having a discussion with a team on a document they produced. Before I launched into my feedback, I wanted to make sure I understood what the goals and purpose of the document were. “What do you mean our goals?” What do you want to achieve with this document? After a bit of back and forth we got to what the purpose and goal of the document was and that helped me understand where they were coming from – but we had to get there. In anything you do, there is a goal, there is a purpose and

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