Articles for category: Initiative

June 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

The House Coding Test

Imagine your team builds houses akin to how they write code. Some questions to ask; How long would it stand the test of time? What issues would appear immediately? What would work well? Would it align with what your users wanted? Would it ship completed? Would it be finished early or late? You can come up with more/less questions, the point of the exercise isn’t to take your team down a notch – the goal is to realize we all like living in strong houses that do what they are supposed to do (keep us safe, give us a place

June 12, 2024

Greg Thomas

Requirement Nirvana

There is a narrow space between an end user and the person building the requirements where sheer Nirvana for what is being created exists. Where what the user needs is properly laid out and what the requirement writer is able to fashion into a meaningful delivery that looks to all of their additional/base requirements they have. It’s like the pot at the end of the rainbow. Or if you met Snuffleupagus. Or when two incongruent parts come together and meet. It’s difficult to do, sometimes it feels impossible, but when it happens, it’s sheer happiness… and Nirvana.

June 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

What your Meetings are Missing

Have you ever asked yourself? Have you ever asked your team? Have you ever set the expectations of your team for what you expect of them and what hear what they expect of you? Until you do, you’ll never know just what your meetings are missing. But we never want to ask, it’s easier to complain.

June 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

How Much do you Know?

Does it matter? If you don’t know enough can you figure it out? If you can’t figure it out, do you know who to ask? When things go sideways are you going to stop or keep pushing into it? The question isn’t how much you know, but how much desire and drive you have to learn to know.  

June 3, 2024

Greg Thomas

If it’s not Agile, then what?

Been reading some articles that Agile is on its way out – Oh no! Time for a new methodology to come in and replace what we’re doing (perhaps we can hand it off to AI). Agile is a Framework, Waterfall is a Framework, and everything other methodology you use is a Framework – when you put them together, you the Lead Developer, Manager, etc. – they become a methodology. Rarely have I seen someone follow Agile to the letter, but most follow tenets of Agile that has improved what they do. Take from whatever Framework works for you and your

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