Articles for category: Initiative

March 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Training On Your Own

Training is easy when someone schedules it for us. It’s even easier when someone shows us what to do as a group. It’s beyond simple when we have someone standing side-by-side with us to correct everything we do along the way. But it’s much, much, much harder to do when we’re on our own when there is no schedule and no progress bar – it’s just you and whatever it is you are doing, working to get better. And it’s where we do our best work, value that effort the most and remember those lessons we learned when we did

February 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Grunt Work

Grunt work never has and never will go away. It will always be there, no matter your role, it will exist, in different forms to be sure. Embrace it, learn from it, figure out how to automate it, and do something with it. From grunt work comes our great ideas for what we might work on next.

February 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

Plan your Demos

I’m a big fan of doing demos on the fly.  Fire up the compiler, and show people what you’ve done. They are meant to be exciting, exhilarating and the best forum in the world to get feedback on how you are doing. Whether you plan it or not, you should always show up ready to go.  If you aren’t ready to go, push it off, an hour, a day (no more than a day) but deliver it. Tell the story of what you are building, show the value of what you’ve created. If you need to plan it out, go

February 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

How Many Accounts Do You Have?

Too many. Too many lurking around. Too many that I don’t log into but get random texts or emails from. Too many need to be cleaned up. Too many that I don’t even know still exist. Spring cleaning is coming early.

February 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

What We Don’t Know

This is the best way to start a meeting where no one knows what is happening or what the problem is. It sets the tone and gets people into the right mindset. It’s not about justifying your position. Assigning blame. Or analyzing what did or did not go wrong. It’s about getting everyone on the same page before deciding to move forward.

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