6 hours ago
The New Car Smell
1 day ago
Build Something Better
2 days ago
The Impact of a SWOT Analysis
3 days ago
The Skills You Need
4 days ago
Plan Forward
5 days ago
Setting the AI Foundations
6 days ago
The Frenetic Developer
1 week ago
Who Attends the Meeting?
1 week ago
Loss of Flow
1 week ago
The Perfect Update
6 hours ago
Nothing defines new better than a new car smell. It evokes a feeling of something being yours for the first time. It has become the definition of the scent associated with new, so much so that we have cans of it we can buy (but they don’t evoke the same feeling). If your product can generate that level of memory, then you’re doing something right. If not, figure out what you’re missing and do it. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the …
Build Something Better
Greg Thomas
The default tool doesn’t do what you need it to do. It hasn’t been upgraded in 10 years, and now it’s not even a feature; it’s more like a hanger-on, and that’s about it. You can mock up and build something that much better in 30 minutes. You can give your users a better experience. You can get them excited to use your tool. That’s what building something better is about – getting people to see a new way of using something that they’ve been forced into for years and then wondering why they didn’t do this themselves in the …
2 days ago
The Impact of a SWOT Analysis
Greg Thomas
The SWOT Analysis has been around for as long as I’ve been learning. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats You can apply it to anything and everything – how do you fare internally vs what is coming your way externally? We can apply it to our team, our company, our industry, continually looking inward and outward. It’s a good tool to get information out into the open, but it only works when we take the next step – action. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m …
1 week ago
The Perfect Update
It’s simple. It’s to the point. It answers the contextual questions you know are coming. It can be digested quickly and easily, allowing people to ask the real questions. If your update is bloated, uses lots of cool words (I’m looking at you, AI), and requires loads of clarifications, you’re not giving a good update – you’re throwing spaghetti on the wall and hoping something sticks. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
1 week ago
Onboarding Quickly is a Skill
On any project, there is a point where adding more people will slow down the project as you seek to onboard them to the work everyone else is doing. It takes time to bring a new person up to speed – sometimes estimated in months when it needs to be a few days or weeks. If you are someone who comes up with a toolbox, learns in advance where the project is at and where the team is having trouble, and knows the tech stack (or is early learning it), your onboarding can drop to those mythical days and low-cost …
The Dying Seconds
The dying seconds are the most exciting because they are the finality of what everyone is counting down to. There is no interpretation of what is dying and what are seconds – they are constants reducing in uniform fashion down to 0. At the end, you either feel amazing, sad, perhaps hoodwinked, but if done right, you know that you gave everything to be there, in that moment. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.