10 minutes ago
Who Generated this Code?
1 day ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
2 days ago
The Strategy Session
3 days ago
Ecosystems Aren’t Built
4 days ago
Now is the Time to Learn
5 days ago
Throwing Solutions at a Problem
6 days ago
AI Doesn’t Do Half the Job
1 week ago
Research, Analysis and Dissemination
1 week ago
The Importance of Design
1 week ago
The Pace of Change is Collapsing
Is that the question we will be asked going forward? What tool did we use to generate code? If we answer that we wrote it ourselves, will we be revered as an elder who once used the magical keyboard of Orbos to decipher the code of Phobos? I don’t think any of that exists. This was a question that mattered 4 – 5 years ago when something looked off, and you wondered how something was being built. Does it matter now, though? Is it more a question of “How was this code generated?” that we will be asked going forward? …
1 day ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
Greg Thomas
You only ever need to be in the meetings that you actively contribute to. If you are not contributing to the meeting, you do not need to be there. If the reason you are there is so people can do their job, then you are using your meetings to solve a very different problem that cannot be solved by you being in a meeting. Take a run of your calendar and eliminate everything you don’t contribute to. If you’re missed, they will reach out; chances are, you’ll get some time back in your day. Want more? Check out my book …
2 days ago
The Strategy Session
Greg Thomas
Daily meetings are tactics – what are we doing today, what did we do yesterday, where am I stuck? Everyone on the project attends and has their say. The Strategy session happens once a week. It’s not for everyone; it’s for the leadership, and it asks a different set of questions Are we moving in the right direction? Are we tracking towards our goal? What is holding the team back? How do we help? Strategy sessions need all the leadership there to make decisions and determine next steps for the week that will filter down to daily meetings. When done …
The Pace of Change is Collapsing
I can go onto LinkedIn, do a bunch of reading on where people are at, and then I can go learn how things work. Learning is the fun stuff; it’s where you get to open your mind to all the possibilities around you. And then you can go back to LinkedIn and realize you are behind (or think you are). Every day, people are doing something different with what they have learned, and the gaps between what they learn and implement are shifting dramatically. With that, we lose something, though, the time to ponder, to think, to consider, to absorb, …
1 week ago
A New Fresh Look
It has some bugs to work out, but I gave Rambli a refresh – I can’t remember the last time it was that I did this – but it felt like a good time. There are some bugs, some good, some bad, some ugly, that I need to figure out. There is probably more around how I write and what I put into that writing that matters a bit more. Maybe this is the kick to improve and do something a bit different. The kinks will get worked out over the next week or so, and then we’ll wonder why …
Knowing your Code Context
There has never been a more important time to know what your code does and how it works. It’s no longer about knowing more than the other person who sits beside you. That competition is over; there are systems out there that will run circles around you. It’s about knowing the context of what your code does, what it talks to, what it interfaces with, and why it retrieves data in a certain way. Everyone is going to AI for answers, and the best piece of information that you can add that AI cannot is the context to your code. …