14 hours 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
7 days ago
The Importance of Design
1 week ago
The Pace of Change is Collapsing
1 week ago
A New Fresh Look
1 week ago
Knowing your Code Context
14 hours ago
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 …
3 days ago
Now is the Time to Learn
Greg Thomas
There has never been a more important time to always be learning. I don’t know if there ever will (maybe when we get transporters). Each day, come out with something new – it doesn’t have to generate mass revenue and hockey stick growth in a day. It might not even pay off today. But in the next month, three months, or six, it will pay off. Now is the time to learn, schedule it, make it part of your daily cadence. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon …
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 …
Your Daily Learn
What is your daily Learn? Don’t leave it to the weekends, it won’t happen. Don’t leave it to some great big 8-hour marathon, it won’t happen. Don’t leave it till the night before, you won’t retain anything. Learning is still a process that we iteratively go through and need to not forget how to do. YouTube, Blogs, Udemy – there is so much out there – taken in increments, you’ll be much farther with what you do each day in your growth if you start with a plan today. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – …