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What Meetings Do I need to be In?
1 day ago
The Strategy Session
2 days ago
Ecosystems Aren’t Built
3 days ago
Now is the Time to Learn
4 days ago
Throwing Solutions at a Problem
5 days ago
AI Doesn’t Do Half the Job
6 days ago
Research, Analysis and Dissemination
1 week ago
The Importance of Design
1 week ago
The Pace of Change is Collapsing
1 week ago
A New Fresh Look
43 minutes ago
You only ever need to be in the meetings that you actively contribute to. If you are not contributing to the meeting, you do not need to be there. If the reason you are there is so people can do their job, then you are using your meetings to solve a very different problem that cannot be solved by you being in a meeting. Take a run of your calendar and eliminate everything you don’t contribute to. If you’re missed, they will reach out; chances are, you’ll get some time back in your day. Want more? Check out my book …
1 day ago
The Strategy Session
Greg Thomas
Daily meetings are tactics – what are we doing today, what did we do yesterday, where am I stuck? Everyone on the project attends and has their say. The Strategy session happens once a week. It’s not for everyone; it’s for the leadership, and it asks a different set of questions Are we moving in the right direction? Are we tracking towards our goal? What is holding the team back? How do we help? Strategy sessions need all the leadership there to make decisions and determine next steps for the week that will filter down to daily meetings. When done …
2 days ago
Ecosystems Aren’t Built
Greg Thomas
Ecosystems evolve; they aren’t built. The frog, the lake, the bugs, the fish – they didn’t just get together one day and decide to jive and make a system. They evolved into it, one begat the other, something was enticing that spurned interest. Over time, it grew and evolved. Ecosystems don’t evolve overnight either; it takes time. As much as we don’t want it to take time, it does, it always will, there is no way around it. That’s the beauty of an ecosystem, always evolving, always growing, no start, no end – it just happens over time. Want …
1 week ago
A New Fresh Look
It has some bugs to work out, but I gave Rambli a refresh – I can’t remember the last time it was that I did this – but it felt like a good time. There are some bugs, some good, some bad, some ugly, that I need to figure out. There is probably more around how I write and what I put into that writing that matters a bit more. Maybe this is the kick to improve and do something a bit different. The kinks will get worked out over the next week or so, and then we’ll wonder why …
Knowing your Code Context
There has never been a more important time to know what your code does and how it works. It’s no longer about knowing more than the other person who sits beside you. That competition is over; there are systems out there that will run circles around you. It’s about knowing the context of what your code does, what it talks to, what it interfaces with, and why it retrieves data in a certain way. Everyone is going to AI for answers, and the best piece of information that you can add that AI cannot is the context to your code. …
Chocolate Milk and Coffee do not Mix
We ran out of milk, but had some chocolate milk. I thought, why not try it in my coffee, since I need something to go in my coffee? I tried adding it to my tea the day before, and it did not work. Fun fact, it does not hit well in coffee either – which I guess is why it has never taken off. But now I tried, and now I know. Don’t stop experimenting… I might not have liked this… but maybe you will. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook …