Articles for category: Delivery

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Inefficient Cloud

When we had to buy hardware to set up your tests, we were efficient as hell. We would spend weeks, maybe even months, watching for deals and agonizing over cache, RAM, CPU, disk arrays, and storage size. Someone still has to do that to make the implementation of clouds effective, but you don’t have to do it anymore.  We barely have server rooms anymore. Now you want to try out a virtual machine or build a resource group, you spin it up and go to town.  For getting up and running quickly, this is a dream, no more weeks and

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

How Much Work Do You Do?

Not in your job description, but in the work that you do. The training. The coaching. The mentoring. The writing. The work that never makes it to a job description, but always elevates you. That is the work that you do.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Own Timeline

When you have others asking you to finish work by a certain date, the timelines are imposed upon you. You can complain about them being too tight, but the fact remains – you have a timeline to finish your wor,k and people are depending upon you. Set the timeline for yourself, and only you are depending on you. Oddly enough, despite our anger, it’s when others depend upon us that we push ourselves harder to meet a timeline, irrespective of whether they are mean or nice about it. So the question becomes – can you treat yourself and your timeline

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

With all the Time in the World…

With all the time in the world, will you be able to accomplish your goals? Will you be able to be disciplined enough to be able to get all your work done? Will you achieve all that you want in all of those interests and hobbies? Will you be able to push yourself as far as you think you can? Maybe it’s time to find out.

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

All of Our Jobs are Gone

If you read any news or blog site today, you will know that all of our jobs are gone. If you are sitting in a classroom right now, maybe in your fourth year, ready to get your first job, it is apparently gone, and there is nothing left for you. The degree I graduated with from university is far from what I do today, where the jobs at the time were not there, so I looked elsewhere. Where you start, where you are, is not where you have to end up. But it won’t come easily, you’ll need to work

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