Month: May 2018

May 9, 2018

Greg Thomas

Your Morning Scrum is killing your Team’s Dynamic

I’ve had this conversation with many a person before, but it bears repeating one more time. Someone popularized the concept of a morning SCRUM to get everyone off to the races, ready to go on the day’s work and had some good success with it. And it does work. When everyone is in the office at the same time. When everyone is starting at the same time. When everyone has not yet started the day. When you have a team that is comprised of late owls, early risers (that’s me), remote workers in different time zones with some people in

May 8, 2018

Greg Thomas

What do you mean you didn’t win?

I guess that’s in then? Time to pack it in. Time to go home. Time to queue up 18+ seasons of some show you never heard of on Netflix. Time to go back to what you were doing before and get yourself comfortable. Time to realize that’s it, that’s all. I didn’t think you were going to do that, but maybe now you’ll realize it’s okay you didn’t get the promotion, it’s okay your demo blew up, it’s okay things didn’t go as planned and it sure is okay you didn’t make it on your first try. If it was

May 7, 2018

Greg Thomas

You Can’t Only Show Up

Want to be on the best team that works on the coolest projects? Want to get the call from the owner when a customer is about to throw out your hardware? Want to work with the latest and greatest SDKs and set the path for the rest of your team to follow? Want to take charge of the team that needs less of a manager and more of a leader? That’s great, but it’s not just about showing up. It’s about what you do to get there, everything you do before showing up and it’s about everything you do after

May 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

Schedule your Work

If you’re struggling with finding the inspiration to create the next amazing novel, piece of art or anything that will stand the test time. Pro Tip: It’s not going to come, regardless of the number of scented candles, sunsets and moco choco frapunchinos that you have beforehand. It’ll come when you sit down and do the work. The easiest way to sit down and do the work is to schedule into each and every day. That’s it (seriously there’s nothing else).

May 3, 2018

Greg Thomas

It’s not the Designing We NEED Help With

Everyone can do a Design with little to no experience. Sure there are some of us that have more experience than others in this area and can help iron out some initial issues. What we really need help with is the delivering, the building, the creating, the implementing, the deploying, the actualizing and the experimenting. If you’re an Architect focused solely on design all I can say is you’re missing out. Not only are you missing out but so is your team, because where they really need you is on everything else that comes after the Design.  

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