Articles for category: Drive

May 2, 2024

Greg Thomas

Sprints or Marathons

Some people run sprints, they are built for it, they have the body and the leg movement to make it happen – they have an incredible kick-off which buys them that crucial few seconds to take a lead. Others are built for marathons, they can store energy, they take longer, thoughtful strides, and they set a pace and stick to it. Sprinters win short races, marathoners win long races. There’s no dispute, you train differently for one over the other. Such should be how you establish your software delivery model – are you sprinting to get the work down and

April 30, 2024

Greg Thomas

I lost my Mouse

For at least 15 minutes, I was staring at my computer, trying a bunch of different tricks, searching for solutions, and restarting my computer. All because my mouse pointer had disappeared. Oh the Horror! The cause?  An update waiting to be accepted. The solution?  If your update is going to cause an inverse reaction to your user’s experience, perhaps try any of the following… Force the update to complete. Warn users. Fix the update? But don’t leave them scrolling around for something that they can’t fix – that’s bad karma when it comes to uninstalling your product.

April 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Lost Spark

You’re going to get beat down. You’re going to realize that maybe this isn’t your “thing”. You’re going to struggle with what to do next and where to go from here. You’re going to have to decide what to do. Inspiration doesn’t come from thinking about what was. It comes from moving forward, from picking yourself up, from figuring out what is next on your list. That’s how you find that lost spark to give yourself a kick to get back into it. But it only happens when you start with that first step.

April 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Conditions

If everything around you is based upon the perfect conditions unfolding. It will never happen. Find a problem, build a solution, in the worst of conditions. Then you’ll know it can survive the worst of it and still be successful.

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