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September 28, 2016

Greg Thomas

What you need to be a Great Team Lead

Whether you are a developer becoming a Team Lead, an Architect becoming a Team Lead or you’ve been hired as a Team Lead, the skills you need are always the same. Learn the People – you might know everyone’s work, but you don’t know their style, take a moment, breathe it in and figure out a strategy for how you are going to work with everyone. Know the Technology – Team leads are generally closer to technology problems than their managers, often doing active coding while working with the team side-by-side.  Your learning doesn’t stop here, it’s just getting started,

September 27, 2016

Greg Thomas

Project Support

Getting a project off the ground, especially when it is… Something new Personal Represents a big change in direction Goes against the status quo? Is never easy. We get down on ourselves, we feel like we aren’t making enough progress, it doesn’t work the first time, etc, etc. That’s where Project Support comes in. Project Support is someone (or ones) that are there to support you in making it happen.  Now don’t confuse Project Support with someone who is aligned with your vision and goals and votes with you at a meeting. No Project Support is very different. The Project

September 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

Stop, Collaborate and Listen

There are products that had a stronger leg up to become a SLACK competitor or the SLACK. The had the foundation, the infrastructure, and the people to make it happen. But if you look at many of these applications, they were either; High-Investment – trying it out wasn’t an easy sell, you needed to invest time and money to make it happens. Closed Loops – Download software, have a big crazy profile of useless information and make it complicated to interact with different groups of people. Integration – want to show your work from Google Docs?  What about Office365?  Maybe

September 22, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Big Computer Rebuild

Two years ago when I went to rebuild my computer I would do the following; Backup all my personal files to a drive. Gather all my installs that I had download and put them on a drive. Get all bookmarks and favourites together so I wouldn’t lose them. Grab my mail files Format PC. Fiddled around with my drivers. Restore all that I backed up. Here is what I did a few weeks ago when I had to do this; Format PC. Downloaded Dropbox and synchronized my files. Logged into Chrome and retrieved all my bookmarks. Fiddled around with my