Articles for category: Initiative

May 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

What Agile Isn’t

An excuse to not do the work you have been doing to date and to do it right. Agile is not getting into a Tesla, dropping the hammer and seeing how fast you can go when you don’t even have a license to begin with. Agile is about iterations and delivering value. If you are not delivering value in every iteration, then it doesn’t matter how fast you are going, you have missed the point. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

May 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Echo… Echo… Echo…

A quick service announcement. As someone who works with multiple laptops/devices and is having to straddle multiple client VPNs and what can and does not work because we are still looking to upgrade our networks and get up and running correctly. If you have multiple devices all connected to the same call, they will generate an echo between them as they are in close proximity. A helpful hint: Only use one device as your prime audio device, everything else should be muted. I find I do software demos on one machine (no audio) and have my other device handling the

April 29, 2020

Greg Thomas

Start Before You Show Up

Before you get to the next meeting, learn about what it is about. Take 5 minutes and think about what is being asked of you. What questions will you ask? What questions will be asked to you? What materials would prove useful to bring? What will you be required to do? How will you present yourself? The goal of any meeting is to accomplish a particular objective and not to have the meeting. The need for the meeting is greater than what can be accomplished via an email. So before you get there, show up and be ready, only then

April 28, 2020

Greg Thomas

Learning New Platforms

When building software on a new platform there is only one thing you need to understand. The Platform. This goes for writing requirements. This goes for doing trials. This goes for testing. This goes for selling it. This goes for marketing it. This goes for running performance tests. This goes for deploying it. This goes for building software on it. If you don’t understand the platform, if you can’t communicate the platform, if don’t know where to tweak the platform and if you aren’t going to learn about the platform. Then you probably shouldn’t be delivering a solution on the

April 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Is Your Approach Going to Change?

Your team might not be different, but how you are talking to them, engaging with them, joking with them is. The question is whether you are going to change your approach for them or whether you’re going to keep on doing the same old, same old in the hope that it works out.

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