13 hours ago
Where does the time go?
1 week ago
I’m Just Getting Started
2 weeks ago
Tracking It
2 weeks ago
Gearing up for Winter
2 weeks ago
The No Meeting Meeting
2 weeks ago
Every Day, Something New
3 weeks ago
The Inversion of your work
3 weeks ago
It Doesn’t Work the Way I Thought
3 weeks ago
Forcing the Seat at the Table
3 weeks ago
TechDebt is becoming the Dream
13 hours ago
If you’re busy, it goes into work. If you’re sitting around, it goes into your phone. If you have a plan, work gets chipped away. If you’re overloaded, it goes into wondering how you are going to get it all done. If you’re underloaded, it goes into dreaming of when you can be overloaded again. If you’re relaxed, it goes into the pursuit of your many hobbies. And if you’re bored, you’re probably wondering what do with all this time. The point is it all goes somewhere, but we will never see what that there is, but just trust that …
1 week ago
I’m Just Getting Started
Greg Thomas
This is your response to turning in your best work. Leave them knowing this isn’t the best; this is the starting to point to get to more. 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.
Tracking It
Greg Thomas
I waver between tracking everything and then nothing. I can’t lie, I like seeing the stats and the progress – I’m a sucker for charts – and I like tracking my process in goals and tracking. And sometimes there reaches a point where I’m too busy, and I don’t track it. And then I start again. Some would call this lack of consistency or focusing on priorities. Whatever the case, I know I’ll start again once I get out of the busy season, but for now – I’ll focus on getting the work done and come back to it. All …
TechDebt is becoming the Dream
Tech debt was always meant to be avoided, but now it is becoming the dream. As we feel the need to move faster and faster, mistakes are made every day, and the mountain of debt grows. Engineers are being rehired to fix Techdebt and not build new product because the push to get to the market first is still prevalent – nothing else matters. If we continue at this rate, software development will no longer be a creative endeavour, but a cleaning exercise. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback …
4 weeks ago
We used to be Organized?
We used to be organized, now we hope pointing an AI agent at our work is going to resolve the issue. It won’t. That’s not how it works. You need some base level of organization and standards to make it work. Also, have you noticed how organized teams are able to adopt AI faster? 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.
What’s the Priority?
If you don’t know what the priority is, how do you know you’re doing the right thing? You don’t and as result, neither does your team. 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.