Articles for category: Initiative

November 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Wrong Comparisons

Oftentimes we compare the wrong things. They are better than us, but they are always three years ahead of us in development. Your code is faster than mine, but yours also does less. Your team works better together, but our projects are also different. The list goes on Infinitum, but the question remains the same – if you are comparing apples to oranges, they will always be different. We think the time is spent in the comparison, but where it should really be spent is ensuring that we are comparing the correct things.

November 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

One Backlog to Rule them All

If you have multiple backlogs, which one does your team know to pull through? How do they know which one is prioritized higher than the other? How do they know which items that cross backlogs might be different than the others? Keep your backlogs simple so that when your team starts to pull from them, they know they are pulling from the right place at the right time, working on the right thing. Essentially what a backlog is supposed to do.

November 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Generalist Life

Specialize, Specialize, Specialize. Own and find your niche, focus on the niche and nothing else. But you can own multiple niches. You can specialize in multiple areas. And what you learn in one will inevitably help you in what you need to do to master the other. The only time it’s scary to be a generalist is when you make assumptions for things you don’t because you have gone as deep as you need.

November 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

What Growth Matters?

If you’re looking to learn something new, growth does not matter in your current skillset. If you’re looking to level up your knowledge from junior to senior, growth will come from niche focus. If you’re looking to become a better leader, the answers to growth will not come from your code. If you need to become a better coder, growth might not come from a generalist conference. The key is to find out and ask yourself the question, where do you want to grow and what steps do you need to take to get there, after that you’ll know what

November 12, 2022

Greg Thomas

Understanding Schemas

If you want to use someone else’s “thing”, like an API or SDK, you are going to have to learn to use it the way they intended for it to be used. Because it was their idea, their proposal, their purpose and they put it all together in a way that makes sense to them that hopefully others will buy into. It’s their Schema for how to do the work. And if you want to get the most out of it, you’re going to need to learn to understand their schema and what every piece means if you want to

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