Articles for category: Initiative

December 16, 2019

Greg Thomas

Be The Change That You Need Them To Be

We all want change. We all want growth. We all want that which will help us get better and develop. And not only do we want it in ourselves, but we want it in our team as well. But if it’s something you truly want to see in your team, then you’re going to have to take the first step to show them what it looks like. You’re going to have to have to be the change that they need to become. (And that’s the difference between the leaders that you reminiscence about at bars at the end of a

December 13, 2019

Greg Thomas

Be the Worst

Another Todd McFarlane video for you. It’s a great discussion on being an artist (and hey I think being a Software Developer is like being an Artist). In the video, McFarlane makes a point to those starting out try to not emulate the BEST but rather emulate the WORST and it’s for one simple reason. If you can look at the WORST, find a way to do it better then them, then you are already ahead of them. If you are able to get ahead of them, well then you’re on your way to getting better each time. Who the

December 11, 2019

Greg Thomas

We STILL don't want to write it down.

After all this time. After all these methodologies. After all these books. After all these meetings. We still don’t want to do the simplest of tasks to convey and idea from one person to the other. We still don’t want to write it down. I’m not sure if it’s because we’re rushed, we don’t want to, the methodology told us we didn’t have to or it’s because we no longer know how. Whatever the reason, we aren’t doing it anymore and on the simplest of projects, it will kill what your team will deliver. Ask the team that delivers early

December 6, 2019

Greg Thomas

One Word

That is what it came down to… one word that ended… well it ended a writing streak that lasted 240 days. A streak where I turned in pages every day writing about anything and everything, some with focus, some without but all of it with a purpose. The goal is to write a minimum set of words day each to get the streak going. I got up to 240 (ish) days and then missed out on it by one word. One word. So now, it’s back to the beginning and starting all over again. I’d be lying if I said

December 4, 2019

Greg Thomas

But in what Format?

When the format is more important than the content of what we are creating, we have started down a path that is hard to recover from. It’s hard to recover because the writer worries more about the look than the content because that is what they have learned they will be judged on first before anything else. As the adage goes, Content is the King (and the Queen, and the rook, and the bishop and the knight… only the pawns are the look). A better way to adopt this problem set, to get people focused on content before looks. Sit

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