Articles for category: Growth

July 18, 2016

Greg Thomas

Careers are not a Given

It’s not your employer’s responsibility to shape your career, you can move from role to role and job to job and establish yourself as someone that can accomplish things, get the job down and make it happen. They can provide you with training. They can provide you with opportunities. They can provide you with suggested. But at the end of the day, they cannot shape the course and direction of your career – only you can do that. Building a career, defining a career, it’s not a given, it’s a job and it takes work, sometimes extra, to make it

July 12, 2016

Greg Thomas

UnIntended Features

We’ve all worked on the bug fix that turned into a hot feature or something we’ve built that ended up being a “bonus feature” for the customer. While recently using the “Low Battery Mode” of my iPhone to conserve my battery power, I came to enjoy my phone running in this mode primarily because I took control when all notifications were sent to me.  That’s right, while conserving power, my phone could last at 20% for over an hour and I could summon emails and updates at my choosing. I could disable this functionality altogether (the pushing and pulling of

July 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

From Developer to Manager

My first article for LifeHack.org – a great site, providing great content on a myriad of subjects.  In this article, I talk about that jump that everyone must take at some point in their career in going from a Developer to a Manager.  It’s odd to try and boil it down to 5 simple points – do this and you’re in but really as everyone knows it is so much harder to do. Nevertheless, I took a shot at it – https://www.lifehack.org/412103/from-developer-to-manager. To this day, I have to say the greatest accomplishment of success I have is when those that I

July 1, 2016

Greg Thomas

When Culture hits the Road

There are lots of books on culture – how to build it, how to create, what is valued within it, etc, etc. It’s impressive, a 7 letter word carries so much weight in our society today – the thing everyone wants, the thing everyone craves, the hardest to identify and the least successful when rubber hits the road. The books I really enjoy reading are those that focus on the author looking back at decisions they made in Company X, what could have been, what should have been, what worked, what didn’t and what the end result was. The books

June 25, 2016

Greg Thomas

You Don’t Know Everything

And never will you. You will know a great deal, you will be a sponge, you will learn everything you can but you will always need someone to fill in the gaps for you.  Whether it is a customer explaining that final set of requirements that you never understood, or the junior developer that knows the 18 steps to configure and deploy that complicated hotfix or the Product Owner who has a better handle on your competitors because they have gone out and met them. You cannot know everything. The sooner you realize, you don’t know everything, the sooner you

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