Month: April 2021

April 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

Where it gets Interesting…

You know the part of the problem I’m talking about. The moment where it all becomes clear, when what you need to do is in front of you and you know what the next steps are to solve it. That AHA or Eureka moment, whatever it is that you would like to call it. It’s that moment where you have a clear understanding of what is to be solved while also understanding the entire workload that must be completed to deliver it while at the same time understanding you don’t have enough time to get it all done. That’s the

April 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s my Role?

You role, what you seek to accomplish, what you deliver, what you focus on. Is what you design it to be. The skills, the habits, the actions, the movements, the presentations are all yours to take and yours to own. If you want to be a manager, act like one. If you want to be a senior developer, learn what it takes to become one and start doing those things. If you want to be a product manager, do what product managers do. No one is stopping you from doing the role that you want to do. You might not

April 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Step Back with your Team

When was the last time you took a step back from the work your team was doing and thought about how they are doing? Are they struggling? Are they stuck? Where do they need help? This isn’t about delivery, this is about growth, their growth, what is next, what they want to be doing, where they need to go. This also isn’t about your vision for them, it’s about them and what they want to achieve and where they want to go. It might be a case of them not even being in the right place currently and them needing

April 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Vacuums of Leadership

When we think of a vacuum of “something” we think of an emptiness, a loss, a hole of something that should be there. Its worst than that. A vacuum is the motion by which something is there is sucked out into something else. So when we talk about Vacuum of Leadership we are really talking about those skills being sucked out of one area to another area. We see this quite often in the re-juggling of projects when a leader is moved from project to project creating a vacuum effect as all that knowledge, leadership, and guidance gets moved between

April 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Come on Up to the Bug Bar

The Bugs are plentiful and they are all free. Stay until the wee hours when the critical bugs come out. No, not that kind of a bar, more like a level, more like your hand where you are drawing a line in the sand and saying – “this is how far we’ll go until we get into trouble”. The problem with a bug bar, is no one wants to admit when they are almost in trouble, when things are getting dicey, when hard decisions have to be made. It’s easier to close your eyes, let the pile grow and then

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