Month: March 2022

March 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Focussed Team

It might seem as though you are being mean when you dissuade conversation or try to bring people back to the focus and purpose of the meeting. It’s even odd that this would be interpreted as mean. A team that goes into a meeting, chat on a topic for an hour with no discernible outcome is the definition of a “meeting that could have been an email.” Set the goal for the meeting, if you find your team drifting, bring them back to the reason they are there, why they are on the call, why you are all talking. There

March 20, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leading Technical Debt

It happened, you have debt, and right now it might be akin to standing in a room with a mess all around you and you don’t know where to start. Despite everything that’s around you, you can’t do it all at once, to do so would mean putting the breaks on everything else you are doing – which most companies cannot afford primarily because customers are key. Where to start? Get the small wins – start small – pick up your clothes, throw out the garbage – see the floor (you might be missing something). What is hurting you?  I

March 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

Oh the Surveys

I was working on a problem the other day with my Azure tenant.  It wasn’t so much a problem as I was trying to find something – going through menus, searching for services (that the vendor no longer offered) – when I was prompted to fill out a survey and rate my service with Azure. At that point in time – zero. The only use my phone home has these days is to be picked up, have someone try and get me to answer a survey as quickly as they can before I hang up. After speaking with someone for

March 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

Finishing Up

When you leave, you finish strong. You bring the end game. You leave no doubt who they are losing and what your potential is. You let them know they had the best and the brightest and they made the wrong trade. This isn’t about showing off or lording it over them. This is about doing what you have always done – driving to the problem, taking the initiative, and leading the way.

March 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: Listening to Your Team

As a leader, you need to deliver. You need to get things done and you do that through your team.  They are the indirect conduits to your success. You need to engage in motivation, inspiration, mentorship, and coaching.  You need to lead the way by jumping in and helping with bugs they don’t need to be doing and leaving the juicy stuff for them to work on. It gets hectic, super hectic – mid-project when everyone is struggling to see the finish line or end project when we are trying to make sure that we’re shipping the best project –

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