Articles for category: Initiative

March 13, 2025

Greg Thomas

Feedback in Intervals

Feedback can come in intervals or as one big hose. The benefit of intervals is that you are able to give out the feedback in drips, watch for improvement, tweak, and give out some more. When it comes out as a firehose, the “giving” of the feedback benefits you because you get it out all at once and can move on. Feedback in intervals takes longer, goes slower, and requires you to hold back when talking to others.  It puts more on you as the leader than the individual. Anyone can do a firehose and get everything out all at

March 12, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Goal in Your Test Cases

The goal in your test cases is to validate a problem that has been solved. It starts with understanding the problem and reproducing it. If you don’t know the problem you can’t reproduce it. If you can’t reproduce it, you can’t validate the fix. One action drives another, impacts another, and makes another come to fruition. Without knowing the problem, you cannot reproduce it, without reproducing it you cannot test it. You need one to do the other, otherwise you are not validating anything.

March 11, 2025

Greg Thomas

Reconnecting your Profile

Every few months I get prompted to reconnect my profile on my blog to LinkedIn. It’s the only active connection I have, it never changes. But I only get alerted when I go to write a post and “gasp” Sometimes I schedule them based on when thoughts strike me. It doesn’t bother me much, I’ve had to delete it now and again when the profile got messed up. And I know I have become desensitized to it because of all the MFA notifications I get on a daily basis. But wouldn’t the better fix be to validate when I log

March 9, 2025

Greg Thomas

You’re Still In It

Don’t believe everything you read, you’re still in it. You still have 9 months in the year. You’re taking steps and making progress. Don’t stop now, if you’ve fallen behind, take a day and get back on track. But you’re not out of it unless you take yourself out of it.

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