Articles for category: Growth

March 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

Software is Not a Factory

Software is an art. Software is creative. How you learn, how you get to where you want to go, where you start from, there are so many incredible paths that you can take to get there, it boggles the mind. This is why I have never been able to see software as a Factory (granted a design pattern exists around this function). What we create, what we build, what has come out of our collective minds over the past twenty years could not have happened in a Factory. Whether you’re building your own platform, coding in C++, making a React

March 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Strongest Supporter

Will always be your customer. If you’re not approaching each project with them as a partnership, then you will only ever get half of the value from it could potentially be. Don’t hide from them. Don’t keep them out of the loop. Don’t gang up on them to have a vote. Bring them onto the team. Invite them to the discussions. Move the project forward faster with them, then without them. They’re waiting.

March 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

What a Difference a Year Makes?

There are about to be some weird and interesting posts popping up on Facebook Memories over the next few months. Where we started is not where we now are. We’ve all gone through that long project where it starts off with good intentions, gets a little muddled in between and then starts to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Or for many of us our year was not like this and took very many different paths. We’ve all had to deal with something go wrong over the last year. Whatever it is was, you made it through,

March 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Elbows No More

We used to be elbow to elbow, and it’s looking like that won’t happen until late Fall, maybe early winter. And honestly, who really wants to go back to work starting in November when its rain and darkness city? But we’re no longer elbows apart, we’re no longer rolling our chairs around to talk to someone. We’re apart, and we’re trying to replicate that or create something new. Your old values might have been about being close to one another, but now it’s changed, and if you’re implementing that change (great) just don’t forget to reflect them in your core

March 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

It’s Been a Year

A year since many of our collective worlds and directions and changed in an instant. Where our plans changed on a dime and in many cases we had to reinvent what we were doing and how we were doing it. When I look back at the change that has happened all I can think about is how much we have dealt and rolled with over the past year, how fast it has happened. Whereas we used to wait months and years to make some of the significant changes over the past year, we transformed to making them in days and

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