Articles for category: Initiative

July 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

How Great Projects are Delivered?

If you were to start today on a new project, no codebase, no people, no resources, no process, no nothing, where would you start? Where would you start that would make the greatest impact? This isn’t a trick question – this isn’t about having the latest and the great tools at your disposal, the tiger team of people or infinite money – simply where would you start. Before, I’d bring in the team, or think about the process, or understand the platform I’d start at the most basic element. What’s the problem we are trying to solve? Who are we

July 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Result of the Ongoing Learning Experiment

So last year, as part of the altMBA program I signed up for I did this goal setting exercise – something I wanted to accomplish, set targets, goals, etc. Goal: Create a Comic Book Gap: Learn to Draw Execution: Draw for 30 minutes each and every single day. Outcome: keep reading… Definitely not as easy as I hoped/thought.  I don’t think since I started that I have hit the 7 days a week of drawing since starting, but I have gone as high as 5 and as low as 0.  Did life get in the way?  Sure it did. Did it

June 30, 2016

Greg Thomas

Applying Version Control to People

Wouldn’t it be great if we could apply the concepts of Version Control to people? Label your best days so you can always back, do a GET and see why everything worked so flawlessly? Forget what you did 3 months ago and why?  Go back into the HISTORY and read the comment – “oh yeah, this is why I had to do this”. Take the best parts of people and MERGE them together et voila – the perfect team? Having a bad day, BRANCH that attitude over to here outside of my main workspace so I can focus on what is

June 21, 2016

Greg Thomas

10 Things Happy, Successful People DO NOT Focus on

I wrote this article for the Every Day Power Blog – not only a great blog to write for, but a great blog to read and learn from – so many great writers are on that site. The article was published yesterday, but it was a crazy day of ups and downs on a plane that I only got the chance to post here tonight. If you’ve ever thought about what you DO NOT need to focus on, then this is the blog post for you.    

June 20, 2016

Greg Thomas

Don’t Limit your Training

I have this free training package where I can go online and watch a slew of training videos. At least I thought I could watch a slew of them. I went to go login to the site and start taking advantage of all this site had to offer – finding a ton of material on things outside of development – writing, drawing, photoshop, mobile development, strategy planning, etc, etc. But I only had access to what was offered to me in this free package which was very focussed on what I was being given to learn.  I looked at all