Articles for category: Initiative

November 29, 2019

Greg Thomas

Late Game Solutions

When you’ve committed to a solution and are midway through the project, you’re in, there is no out (unless it is so bad that everyone is throwing up their hands, toss keyboards over their walls and generally ready to storm the cloud in the hopes of pulling it down). But you’re not there, you’re working with a solution that might not be perfect but it’s 90% of what you need, so sure there is some work to do, but you aren’t dying, the project will survive and people are happy. So in these cases – don’t get frustrated and say

November 26, 2019

Greg Thomas

Everyone Loves a Good Chart

And why not it shows progress, it shows movement, it shows direction, where things are headed and what our goals are. Except when the data is bad. When the data is bad, all it is is a picture with arrows.

November 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

Great, Everything has Changed

Two weeks ago, Microsoft wrapped up its yearly Ignite Conference and before long, Apple and Google will have their big conferences again. Amazon and Facebook will have theirs. And everything will change again. All that code you wrote will now need to be upgraded to a new platform. That product you were working on was done in half the time by twice as many people. The idea you had is already being worked on and set for release next month. What you designed for the customer might as well wait until they start using the new stuff. This is technology,

November 21, 2019

Greg Thomas

Sometimes, you need to Act Like It

No one is born into a role. Everyone wants to a police officer at the age of two, but no one actually is. Just like no one tells you the day you are going to lead a team. It just kind of happens, maybe you had an inkling something was going to change, maybe it was a formal promotion to being a manager but now there it is in front of you – you are a Leader. It’s not easy stepping into a new role, it’s always scary, even if it’s just one set of eyeballs staring back at you.

November 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

The More You Invest

Fast forward to 2:45 – where Ramsay says to the chef – “They more work and effort you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong.” – I’m paraphrasing out some of the pieces about food but the sentiment is exactly the same in anything you are doing – coding, writing, sports, whatever it is. The more you put in, the more it hurts when it goes wrong. I love this line because it perfectly captures on line that we must cross between investing wholly in what we are doing and giving up and when the going gets

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