12 hours ago
What’s the Priority?
1 day ago
The New Car Smell
2 days ago
Build Something Better
3 days ago
The Impact of a SWOT Analysis
4 days ago
The Skills You Need
5 days ago
Plan Forward
6 days ago
Setting the AI Foundations
1 week ago
The Frenetic Developer
1 week ago
Who Attends the Meeting?
1 week ago
Loss of Flow
If you don’t know what the priority is, how do you know you’re doing the right thing? You don’t and as result, neither does your team. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
1 day ago
The New Car Smell
Greg Thomas
Nothing defines new better than a new car smell. It evokes a feeling of something being yours for the first time. It has become the definition of the scent associated with new, so much so that we have cans of it we can buy (but they don’t evoke the same feeling). If your product can generate that level of memory, then you’re doing something right. If not, figure out what you’re missing and do it. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the …
Build Something Better
Greg Thomas
The default tool doesn’t do what you need it to do. It hasn’t been upgraded in 10 years, and now it’s not even a feature; it’s more like a hanger-on, and that’s about it. You can mock up and build something that much better in 30 minutes. You can give your users a better experience. You can get them excited to use your tool. That’s what building something better is about – getting people to see a new way of using something that they’ve been forced into for years and then wondering why they didn’t do this themselves in the …
Loss of Flow
Three years ago, all you could find were blogs and blogs, books, podcasts, everything and anything that would help you achieve Flow. The zen state where you are in full-throttle mode, accomplishing anything and everything. Now, today, we couldn’t care less – AI will do it for me if I don’t get into Flow or someone else on my team. Interrupt me 17 times a day, pile on more and more interactions, as many as you want, because in between I’ll send out a prompt for AI to do some more stuff for me. And what you’ll end up with …
1 week ago
The Perfect Update
It’s simple. It’s to the point. It answers the contextual questions you know are coming. It can be digested quickly and easily, allowing people to ask the real questions. If your update is bloated, uses lots of cool words (I’m looking at you, AI), and requires loads of clarifications, you’re not giving a good update – you’re throwing spaghetti on the wall and hoping something sticks. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
2 weeks ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
On any project, there is a point where adding more people will slow down the project as you seek to onboard them to the work everyone else is doing. It takes time to bring a new person up to speed – sometimes estimated in months when it needs to be a few days or weeks. If you are someone who comes up with a toolbox, learns in advance where the project is at and where the team is having trouble, and knows the tech stack (or is early learning it), your onboarding can drop to those mythical days and low-cost …