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August 31, 2016

Greg Thomas

If you read this far…

There comes a time when you are writing a document and you question whether anyone will read it.  You spend hours putting it together and part way through you start asking yourself this question.  This is a document that you send out to a large group of people that you are not sure if they will look at it or delete it as quickly as it enters their inbox. So you have two options; Stop. If you read this far… Stop Yes you can stop working on this document and simply make a case for it’s irrelevance.  That might work,

August 30, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Nostalgic Coder

Remember when you were a coding machine?  When you could take a requirement, design it in your head and simply start coding like the hero/heroine that you are? When your day was 110% coding and nothing else?  No meetings, no scrums, no design reviews, no nothing. Just pure coding bliss. Why is the act of coding, that as developers,  let us reminisce about the good old days – the best releases we ever did, the best bugs we ever closed, the features that started off as a task but we made so… so much better. Is it because when we

August 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

It’s the Getting Started that Stops Us

What takes more time? Getting started on a new project or jumping into a project you have been working on for the last few weeks? In the former, you don’t know; How long is it going to take? How hard is it going to be? Who will you need to help you finish it? When will you finish it? How many struggles will you have to go through? What, if any, other obstacles will be in our way? That’s the story we tell ourselves because we don’t have answers to these questions, that’s our story. In the latter, the story

August 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

Not Everyone is going to Listen to You

The title might mislead you into this being a bit of a downer post – but instead – it’s about not giving up and continuing that continual push for change.  It’s not easy, Not Everyone is going to Listen to You It’s not easy, if it was, everyone would be doing it.

August 25, 2016

Greg Thomas

Why Startups need Marketing

In the early days of a startup, you don’t need a dedicated Marketing person. You do need someone who can handle the Marketing role. This is a key difference, because even though you don’t need to have someone fully dedicated to this, you do NEED to have the responsibilities of this role fulfilled on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. And this role should not be handled by one person – because then it becomes a Marketing person – instead this role NEEDS to be handled by everyone in your team for the reason that everyone understands the value of the