Month: November 2018

November 8, 2018

Greg Thomas

Take the Reigns

It’s pretty easy to say – “if no one is leading, then become the leader and take control”. It’s another thing to do it. There is most likely no prescribed guidance for the situation you are in so someone talking about how they did this for that probably would not work for you. So what do you do? Take a no-holds-barred approach, kick everyone out of the room and do your own thing? Try and see if you can deliver all that work on your own? Maybe it’s not about you taking the reigns, but picking them up and showing your

November 7, 2018

Greg Thomas

Growth Transition

It’s great to watch your team grow and develop. Skills they didn’t know before, they are now handling with ease. Projects and work that you thought was impossible for them to take on they are now doing with ease. The goals you have set for them they knock down without even trying. Now it’s time to transition into something different. Read: Not give them more of the same thing or an incremental growth but to give them something that levels up their skill set for growth. Some will shy away because this represents too much change when they were just

November 6, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Kick-Off

There are always two competing agendas occurring at a Project Kick-Off. The Customer I want it yesterday, here is everyone you need to meet, start delivering. You (the Developer) I’d like to tell you how we’re going to delivering your project. From the onset, they are in disagreement because one is driven by immediacy and the other by a pragmatic approach. The developer wants to make sure they do it right for the customer the first time, the customer wants it done now because the problem has become so severe they cannot wait any longer. But there is always time,

November 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

Find the Right Metrics

Not social, please not social, that you need to use to up your own game and level up. Perhaps it’s how many words you write a month, how many bugs you fix or new ideas you come up with this weekend. Maybe it’s how many and of what quality books that you read. Or go further, how many classrooms you speak to, how many times you give your work away for free or time to others. Whatever it is, those are metrics that matter, those are metrics that should and need to be tracked.

November 2, 2018

Greg Thomas

Break Out of Your Rut

Ruts are places where we spin and spin in an effort go somewhere. But we can’t because we are spinning. We’re doing the same thing, over and over and over again. We can try to employ quick little fixes hoping it gets us out of the rut, but generally they all fail and we spin some more, getting deeper into the rut. The only way to truly get out of a rut is to take a step back, look at the problem from a different angle and do something completely different. You might need to take a training course, volunteer

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