Articles for category: Initiative

July 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

Software Built on Trust

I’ve written on this topic before in a few places (actually quite a few times based on a quick search of this site). But I decided to expand on it a bit for a recent LinkedIn article. If you’re building software, if you want to build great software, you need to start with trust. To take from the article…  Software Built on Trust starts with Development but it permeates it’s way through Product Management, Sales, Finance, everywhere the organization depends on that delivery. That’s what you can do when starting with the fundamentals of Software Built on Trust.

July 17, 2021

Greg Thomas

Bad News vs Ugly News

Bad News is not as good as good news. It is news nonetheless and not all bad news is truly bad news. Sometimes it’s an update – “we’re late on feature X because people have been away, this sprint we’re going to pour some people on in an attempt to catch up.” It’s bad, not good. But Bad News is never as bad as Ugly News. “We were late on Feature X, we didn’t want to tell you. We let it sit for too long and now throwing more people at it isn’t going to fix the problem, it’s just

July 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

No Questions

When I give a presentation, a demo, a walkthrough, anything. If there are no questions, I get squared. Really, really squared. Because if there are no questions it means any of the following; I completely missed the mark and delivered the wrong content. The people in attendance do not care about what I am presenting or the content I am putting forth. No one understands what I have just said. They are confused. None of these are good responses. If you are assuming people are happy and satisfied with what you have just delivered ask yourself one question – when

July 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re Not Ready

Good. Now that you know it, let other people know. Go to any developer site and you’ll find posts upon posts about battling Impostor Syndrome – yup it’s a thing. The biggest reason that Impostor Syndrome has become such a huge thing is that there are environments that incubate this feeling of inadequacy and not being sure of what you can do to the point that it belittles your confidence. Yes we are all too hard on ourselves sometimes (many) but think back to your first part-time job – did you feel like an impostor working as a cashier? flipping

July 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Remote Chicken Coops

I wasn’t able to make a recent episode of Remotely Prepared and left things to Colin Harding to run with. Instead he walked with it (bad joke, watch the episode). Seriously though, if you are looking for an episode to relax to and feel instant calm – listen to this episode. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/walk-with-me Plus: Chickens.

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