Articles for category: Growth

July 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

We’ll Figure it out as we go

Tell me when this has worked for everyone involved? If it’s something simple, like the background of the page, sure, figure it out as we go. If it’s something more complex, like the vision of a new project or the upcoming of a release. Nothing is more demoralizing to your team then hearing – “we’ll figure it out as we go” when they are about to jump into a new project. There is a time to “figure it out as we go” and it’s definitely not at the beginning of a project. Want more? Check out my book Code Your

July 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

What’s In a Preview?

A new feature. A fix to an old bug. An idea for something new that you want to see whether there is some love from the market to keep it going? A direction you never thought of. A new platform of support. What should never be in a preview? Making your application harder to use then it was before. Putting your users through 5 clicks to accomplish a task that used to be done in one. Having to call support to fix an issue that wasn’t included in the preview and now they are stuck with. Cloud platforms are updated

June 29, 2020

Greg Thomas

Deliver for a Company or Deliver for yourself

When delivering work for a company, you are a part of the cog, you are a piece of the delivery, you are a component of what someone is up at the front of the room with powerpoint in hand where they might call you out expand on a topic. When you are delivering for yourself, you are the engine, you are living the topic and you are calling yourself out each and every day. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

June 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Code to Draw

I track all of my blog ideas in Trello, mainly because I can use it from any device and if I have a thought on the spur of a moment, I can easily add a card and move forward with it. I’ve had this one topic of coding being akin to drawing for a long time. For the past 4 years I’ve been dabbling in learning to draw (or re-learning). I didn’t start from any great talent, so I’m pretty much starting from the bottom and working my way up. Over the past year I’ve been putting in more effort

June 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

Which Chips Do You Want?

When someone says – “I want a bag of chips” – and you go to the store and return with a bag of chips, you are invariably destined to get the ill-fated response of – “Those aren’t the kind I wanted.” Such is life in any request for software. I want it to be blue. (But really, only in the bottom right corner). We need to be agile. (But we don’t want to change what we are doing). We should use this framework. (Not really, but it sounds nice). These are the statements that will be thrown at you as

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