Articles for category: Growth

March 12, 2024

Greg Thomas

Always Be Challenging

In sports, when you challenge a player, you aren’t committing to them, you’re staying with them, you’re in front of them, you’re protecting your side and doing nothing else. You’re an obstacle, something they need to work through, someone they need to break through to get to their goal. Outside of sports, challenging is the same thing, you’re always pushing, always trying new things, always poking, always working, always breaking in. If you’re not, you’re waiting for people to come to you, and that’s no challenge.

March 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

Scaling your Development Team

Growing Teams isn’t easy. Growing development teams while having to deliver releases is an endeavor in its own category that is always met with – “I don’t want to onboard new people while I have a pile of work to get done” – which is completely understandable. We always default to scaling by people, headcount, and numbers – and yet there are other ways to scale as well – Process, Growth, Minimalism, and Skill.  I wrote about this a while ago here.

March 2, 2024

Greg Thomas

It Gets Amazing

Nothing else, it… just… gets… amazing. As long as you stick with it. If you don’t stick with it, it will never get there, but if you, if you can stick with it, you’ll be amazed at where it can go and how you can get there. But you have to stick with it.

February 23, 2024

Greg Thomas

All-In on the Fix?

Can we put everything into this fix to get it right and get it out there? Have you tried putting everything into one fix? I remember when 100 MB was considered too big for a patch and now I’m downloading 20 GB updates. Focus your fixes on the problems they are meant to solve – no one ever complained about a fix that addressed the one issue it was meant to.

February 22, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Forgotten Side-Quests

In video games, there are many side-quests to getting to your primary quest.  They might give you XP (experience) to help in your primary quest (i.e., unit testing, additional coding, etc, etc). We sometimes discard them because – “Bah, when am I going to use this” – but then when we complete the primary quest, we begin the work to go back and clean up our side quests and think – “huh, this would have helped out a lot if I had done it sooner.” Don’t forget the side-quests, they take longer, but they are designed for growth.

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