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May 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Avoiding Spoilers

Recently, I have spent most of my Friday mornings trying to avoid watching spoilers. It’s not easy when whatever app you open up is blasting you pieces and clips of what you have missed. The projects we work on should be the opposite, when we see a spoiler, we should watch it. We should want to dig in and find the spoiler that is happening before it gets revealed to us (i.e., what is about to blow up in our face before it actually does). We should scour the internet for any clue as to what might be going on,

May 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

Writing Code for Someone’s Idea

You can write code to do anything you want. That’s the beauty of software development, you can write code to do anything you want. As in drawing, whatever you can imagine, you have the potential to go through all the ups and downs, research, google searching and everything else to try and make whatever is in your head a reality. That’s the beauty of it. When someone asks you (as invariably happens to every single software developer) you can write code for them as well. From here there are two paths you can then go down… You can start writing

May 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

What you could be doing?

Our natural response is to look at what is wrong with a particular situation and make lists itemizing all those things, going through what is wrong so you can fix it. But what if you made a different list. A list that instead focused on all the things you could be doing instead of making that list, instead of writing down what happened but instead focused on what you wanted to work on and where you wanted to go and accomplish. Isn’t the second list the one you really want to be working on?

May 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

Getting on the Same Page?

The expression is to “get everyone on the samge page” because often we are not on the same page. We are on different pages, we have our own ideas, some are behind, some are ahead. Invariably at the beginning, we are all on different pages through no fault on our own. The challenge for the leader is to get everyone onto the same page with one important caveat – it’s not about getting everyone onto their page, but rather getting everyone onto the same page – even if it differs from their own. That’s the tricky part.

May 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team Events in a Remote World

I wanted to find a way to have a team event that wasn’t going to be repetitive from what we had had recently. We’d done the Take Out Tuesday and the odd drinks but those were just a few people chatting. This needed to be for 30+ people who I wanted to have a good laugh and also very much pat them on the back for the great work that they had been doing. What I came up with was a game of – “How well do you know your team?” – with the wink being towards how long we