Articles for category: Growth

March 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: Demo Day

I love doing demos, either attending or giving them.  I’ve written so much on them in the past; Plan Your Demos The Day after the Demo The Art of the Demo Demos Gonna Break Software Sales Demo are a Thing Reading those titles, I could still come up with more content to write on demos. This is why I’m always surprised to hear that someone doesn’t want to give a demo.  As a developer, the demo is the culmination of your work to show how you took words and made them into something tangible, how you took an idea and

March 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

How To Build a Great Team

I wrote this presentation and published it on Slideshare a number of years ago.  It was a fun look at the people, the personalities you need to make your team successful, and where leadership comes from. I did it around the time that the comic book movies were not as massive as they are today, but there are still few unknowns in there that might make you think. Here is the entire presentation – “How to Build a Great Team”.  

March 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

Are you Ready?

Probably not. No one is ever ready for what is coming their way, if they were, they would be doing it. The usual response to this question is usually – “I guess” or “Okay” or “I think”. Unless you’ve done this task 17 times before, no one can ever say for sure that they are ready with 100% confidence. But that’s not the question we’re asking whether you’re ready to complete the task, what we’re asking is; Are you ready to take the lead and figure out how this works? Are you ready to learn something new? Are you ready

March 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Training On Your Own

Training is easy when someone schedules it for us. It’s even easier when someone shows us what to do as a group. It’s beyond simple when we have someone standing side-by-side with us to correct everything we do along the way. But it’s much, much, much harder to do when we’re on our own when there is no schedule and no progress bar – it’s just you and whatever it is you are doing, working to get better. And it’s where we do our best work, value that effort the most and remember those lessons we learned when we did

February 28, 2022

Greg Thomas

What Value Testing?

Everything. Testing is everything. If you aren’t testing then you aren’t shipping. Consider that the next time you are trying to squeeze your QA team down from four months to three months to two weeks in the hope that “everything works”. Hint: It won’t, but that’s why we test.

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