58 minutes ago
The Impact of a SWOT Analysis
1 day ago
The Skills You Need
2 days ago
Plan Forward
3 days ago
Setting the AI Foundations
4 days ago
The Frenetic Developer
5 days ago
Who Attends the Meeting?
6 days ago
Loss of Flow
7 days ago
The Perfect Update
1 week ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
1 week ago
The Dying Seconds
58 minutes ago
The SWOT Analysis has been around for as long as I’ve been learning. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats You can apply it to anything and everything – how do you fare internally vs what is coming your way externally? We can apply it to our team, our company, our industry, continually looking inward and outward. It’s a good tool to get information out into the open, but it only works when we take the next step – action. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m …
1 day ago
The Skills You Need
Greg Thomas
In the AI era of development, you might not need to know every single development framework under the sun. But you should still know the ones you are asking AI to build – afterall – whose going to be fixing the bugs? Problem identification has, and always will be, important and will never go out of style. Being able to look at an issue and break it down – “this is important but not urgent” is a skill many lack. Debugging is going to be the #1 skill of any developer – how quickly and efficiently can you diagnose an …
Plan Forward
Greg Thomas
It seems odd: a Plan that moves you forward. But sometimes, it bears reminding – plans are built to move the team forward, to show progress, delivery, and success. They are meant to deliver. If your plan doesn’t move forward, what is it moving to? 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.
The Dying Seconds
The dying seconds are the most exciting because they are the finality of what everyone is counting down to. There is no interpretation of what is dying and what are seconds – they are constants reducing in uniform fashion down to 0. At the end, you either feel amazing, sad, perhaps hoodwinked, but if done right, you know that you gave everything to be there, in that moment. 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.
Learning for the Team
When leading a team, there are things you need to learn so your team can have someone to talk to and bounce ideas off of. You don’t need to have all the answers. You are not meant to be an expert. You are meant to be there for your team. You are meant to take that “new” thing you learned, apply everything that you know, and provide an opinion on how they could solve a problem. Sometimes, that’s why you might need to do some learning for your team, even if you’re not the one doing the actual work. Queue …
2 weeks ago
The Flea Market
There is a Flea Market near where I live. Growing up, it was huge, drawing big crowds every weekend, and it was a “thing” to go to it. It’s since shrunk down and gotten shuttled to the side, but it still survived for many years. And now word that it is shutting down completely. There are lots of videos about “amazing finds” at flea markets – I’ve always liked them for the oddities and all the memories you can find when going through old treasures of years gone by. It’s a hard thing to keep going when your climate is …