Articles for category: Ideas

October 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Matters to the Team isn’t what Matters to the Individual

The team needs a leader, the individual needs a mentor. You lead the team, by connecting with the individuals and figuring out what they need to buy into the vision.  Some will resist, they can’t see it on the first, the second, or the eighteenth day. They have different viewpoints, different goals, and different ideas – the leader brings them into the focus of the team, not ignoring them but finding how they connect to the team’s vision so what the individual needs help with lines up with what the team needs.

July 9, 2023

Greg Thomas

Break it Down to Basics

You can’t argue that breaking down a complex task into it’s simplest components is the best way to tackle a problem. And yet too often, we want to look at it as one, huge assuming mass and deal with it then and there. Not every fire needs a firehose, sometimes it needs smaller, more tactile options to resolve. Sometimes we need to take a step back, write them down and then move forward with them.

June 5, 2023

Greg Thomas

Creative Expressions: Unleashing the Power of Imagination and Inspiration

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May 6, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Gutter Between Code and Tickets

In comic books, we call it the gutters – the spaces between panels where the reader envisions the transition, things happening, work being down, and actions happening. In software, this is the space between the tickets you are assigned to work on and the code you write.  The gutter exists, stuff happens between those two things, thinking emerges, design happens, and we don’t always know what it all is, but it happens there – it’s the sweet spot where the magic happens. The Gutters hold immense amounts of promise but they can also let you down, the more space between

December 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

What the Day of Boxes should be

I have a similar picture from when my children were young, we had bought new chairs and had all these boxes so we made this weird box fort in the basement that they could draw on, hang out in, eat, have snacks, etc, etc. It’s where creativity is born.

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