Articles for category: Initiative

April 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Hidden List

The hidden list is the one we all have at the back of our heads, in the dark recesses of our minds where we are all trying to work things out.  All those nasty bugs and issues that have laid waste to our systems that we don’t store in JIRA and DevOps and instead we let them take up space in our minds until it beats us down because we are so consumed by the weight of what is and isn’t being tracked. There is a solution to the Hidden List. Write it down, put it in JIRA, put it

April 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

When it’s no longer a Bug

When you’ve spent an entire day trying to figure out what the issue is, it’s no longer a bug. When it’s going to take longer to fix it, than it did to build it, it’s no longer a bug. When you need to pull in the entire team to diagnose and troubleshoot the issue, it’s no longer a bug. When you are trying things that you aren’t sure are going to work, but hope that they do, it’s no longer a bug. There are many other reasons and scenarios here, the point that matters is that you define when a

April 1, 2022

Greg Thomas

Measure the Journey

If you are constantly measuring your results by the final result, you’re going to be disappointed 90% of the time. You won’t always come first. You won’t always win gold. You won’t always get the job. But you can learn from it, you can grow from the work you did to get there and you can turn your focus to a greater goal. But if you’re all focused on is the end result, you’ll never appreciate everything you did in the journey to get there.

March 31, 2022

Greg Thomas

Tweak what’s Wrong

But sometimes you need a tweak to make it better. And sometimes you need to ask for a second opinion when what you’re doing is getting the same results. Tweaks aren’t about throwing out everything you have done. They are about figuring out what’s missing to make it right.  

March 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Quiet Moment of Success

I think we are conditioned that big successes require big moments and ceremonies to make them be worthwhile and properly commemorate all the work that has gone into something. Maybe, but when I think of the successes I have had, the ones that mattered more than anything.  I can easily say, that the quiet moments away, are when I actually got to absorb what went into that success, what mattered, and just how great it was. I think we sometimes undervalue those quiet moments.

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