12 hours ago
Get Out of the Way
2 days ago
Flying Cars
3 days ago
What Most Architecture Designs Miss
4 days ago
Where are we?
5 days ago
Team Events
6 days ago
Getting the Work Done
2 weeks ago
Meeting Overload
2 weeks ago
Craftsmanship vs the Factory
2 weeks ago
Stopping to Learn is the Worst Decision
2 weeks ago
Too Many Tickets is Not the Problem
Let your team work. You don’t need to ask them every day what they did – you need to trust them. You don’t need to check in every few moments – you need to give them time. You don’t need to prompt them for updates – you need to wait for them to come to you. They haven’t forgotten about you; they are trying to work so they can give it to you. They are not an AI Agent, so stop sending them prompts. Get out of their way, let them work; I swear you’ll be amazed. Want more? Check …
Flying Cars
Greg Thomas
Woot! Woot! Flying Cars are here; they came in my lifetime. This is great news. Love it. I still am not big on flying, so not sure I want to be strapped to an even smaller vehicle twisting and turning through the air. That’s awesome, great news. Now if only I didn’t get prompted 20 times a day by Authenticator, that would be progress. 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.
3 days ago
What Most Architecture Designs Miss
Greg Thomas
What you build, how you design work- these things all matter when building a software solution (yes, even today in the age of AI) – because I think, for the most part, we all want our work to stand the test of time. In order for your work to stand the test of time, it needs one very important thing backing it. What is the problem you are trying to solve? If you can’t condense that down to one sentence, then it doesn’t matter what you have designed; I know you don’t understand what you are designing it for, and …
2 weeks ago
Too Many Tickets is Not the Problem
Knowing what the tickets are and having to manage them? That’s always been the problem. If I could have my perfect dev system. Each week (or even day), it would leave a comment in a ticket why I did not work on something or what I did thinking about it. But no effort from me, just knowledge transfer – I thought and designed something here for an hour, I didn’t get to it because I had these other 5 things to do. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on …
Unfurling the Sails
When sailors of old (very old) would get a sense of an oncoming wind, they would unfurl the sails to take advantage of each and every breath of wind that could push them as far as they could go. Then, when the wind died down, they would roll them up, rest, and wait for the next big wind to come along. You can’t unfurl your sails all the time, but you can choose when exactly is the right moment to get the most out of them. Rest, Go Big, Rest again, Go Big again. Want more? Check out my book …
2 weeks ago
The Continued Value of Demos
You can’t beat a flawless demo. Except with a busted demo. If done right, a busted demo will always leave them wanting more because they’ve seen how far you’ve come. Demos still have value, with or without AI, it just depends how far you are willing to push them. 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.