Month: July 2021

July 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Changing Ideas Mid-Flight

How scary is this? You’re mid-way through a project and/or delivery and you have an epiphany to pivot, change, alter your course of action. Worst, before you justify it to others you have to justify it to yourself. Even worst, you can see the different paths laid out in front of you and what they can represent – the good, the bad, the possible. It’s enough to make your gut lurch forward and leave you frozen in a panicked state. But what may come from it, might blow you away. Or it might fall flat. Here’s the problem though, you

July 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Downward Delivery

At some point in a project, features will be cut (unless you have inifinite time, resourcs and absurdly patient customers). On a first release, it is inevitable – you’ve hit issues you didn’t expect, run up against the wall against problems you didn’t even know existed, when the user saw what they were getting they wanted to change things up, etc, etc. The list goes on. When this happens, the question that everyone has to keep asking themselves should always be the same… Does this weaken our delivery? It’s not an easy question to ask (it’s not supposed to be),

July 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

If you’re Presenting Numbers

Make sure they add up. Make sure they make sense. The numbers justify your arguments, your purpose, your direction. But when they are off, they become the focus as people try to figure out why they are off, why they are wrong, what goes into them, etc, etc. Instead what you’ll be leaving with, is a discussion about your numbers and not the reason you were there.

July 3, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Hidden Cost in Leadership

You have to do it. That’s the cost. Whether it’s putting more effort into running your team meetings. Scaling up your One-On-Ones. Refactoring who does what. Building out people’s growth plans. Whichever the tactic and/or strategy that you are employing, there is a cost, it’s your time and if you’re doing it right, you will feel that cost as you grow as a leader. You will recognize it and realize when and how to employ it. You will learn from your mistakes and get better as you do it more. But make no doubt, there is a cost – your

July 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

My Part is Done

This is one of those knives through the heart type of thing. You have a team working towards a delivery, everyone has their piece that they are responsible for. At the meeting to discuss where things are on the deliverable, the team clearly has a lot left to do and is working through how they are going to accomplish that. You’ve just gone through all the issues when someone chimes in – “My part is done, so there is nothing left to do for me.” When the team is struggling, there is always work left to do. The team delivers

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