Articles for category: Initiative

August 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

We Can Code Anything

I once worked with someone who would start complex problem/requirements discussions with this statement. It immediately set the room and easy while at the same time getting us all pumped up for a challenge. “WE CAN CODE ANYTHING” Those four words conveyed so much… We’ll figure this out. I have confidence in everyone’s abilities in the room. We can do this together. We might not know the answer, but we know the path to get there. I have faith. Not only is it something fun to say, but it just makes so much sense, as a software development team –

August 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

I Love API Development

I love coding against APIs that other people have written. I think part of it is the entire idea around someone giving you a view into their world and how to do things within it and then you as a developer being able to connect that view to other views (APIs) that people have built. It’s that big wide-open connection of libraries that is just so completely interesting to see and work with. I say this because I think in any aspect of software development, you need to have a favourite thing that you do. A piece of code that

August 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

When the Requirements Don’t Fit

One day you are going to pick a product or tool to do a job that just doesn’t fit. Maybe it doesn’t work, maybe it doesn’t line up, maybe it simply doesn’t do what it was supposed to do. The only question in your mind is – “Now what am I supposed to do?” At this stage you have two options; Do a ton of work around this tool or product (I’m looking at you Mr. using my drill as a hammer because I don’t have hammer person) to make it work. Get a new tool (oh hello Hammer) Neither

August 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

Bad Remote Decisions are Coming

As we start to crest the remote wave, hybrid offices, people staying remote, pay equity changes are starting to become the topics du jour. There is no more talk of New Normal or Now Normal, it’s now going to be about the “Next Normal”. And the Next Normal has the potential to take away all the great things that we have done with remote over the past year and make them hurt. A few things to remember when your team is working remotely; A green icon doesn’t mean they are actually present (or working) People should be paid what they

August 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Don’t worry about Getting it Wrong

Instead, worry about what’s going to happen when you get it right. What you’ll be able to focus on next. Where you’ll be able to go next. How you’ll be able to grow your team. What problems you’ll solve next. Those are the problems you want to be solving.

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