Month: March 2020

March 17, 2020

Greg Thomas

Making a Team Decision

If you have the opportunity to open up an important decision to your team where you want to get their feedback and help in making the decision and you take it – this is a great to align your team. It’s tempting to meet with everyone individually so you only have to deal with any criticism that might come at you in an isolated manner but then you don’t get the benefit of hearing the team collectively speak and work towards the solution in that forum. If you can be brave enough to handle the good with the bad, you

March 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Run With the Team

Not to be confused with – “Run the Team”. Leaders run with the team, before they ask their team to do something, they are doing it with them, they are trying it out before they ask them to, they are considering it before asking the team to do the same. Managers don’t run with teams, they run teams, they ask teams to consider options, ask them to try new things out and do things. It’s harder to spot in an office setting, but in a sports setting it’s simple. The leader who runs, is running, up there with this team.

March 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

New for the Sake of New

When you’re working with all the “new” stuff, everyone wants to use it. Everyone wants in on it. What was new is now old and who wants to work with that. This is great for learning and great for advancing your software and it’s capabilities. But if you don’t know why you are using it? Well then you are just doing some new because it’s new and not because it can actually help you out. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

March 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

Escalating Confusion

The scariest thing I see in any software delivery team is confusion. Running out of licenses? That can be fixed. Not sure what development platform to use? You’ll figure it out. The User Interface looks like garbage? We can buff it out. The app is too slow? We can make it faster. But when the team is confused, when the team doesn’t know what they should be doing, or what direction they should be headed? That’s scary, everything else can be triaged, managed or handled. But you can’t triage confusion, you can’t manage it and the only way to handle

March 11, 2020

Greg Thomas

Find your Release Anchor

Anchors are big, heavy pieces of metal that you drop out of a boat when you’re close to land so your boat doesn’t drift away. They keep you in one spot. Too often in a release, where we started is not where we end up. What was originally meant to be the release, is no longer the release and what we are shipping is something vastly different than what was originally intended. For this reason, releases need to have anchors. They need to have that connection to what was intended when the idea for the release was conceived. They need

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