Month: January 2023

January 14, 2023

Greg Thomas

Are you Applying for the Wrong Job?

It’s quite possible you are. You see a job title that entices you, a description that makes you go – “I could do that” – and you apply to it. Then you sit down in the interview, realize it’s not what you want, and wonder why you are wasting your time. Or you go through the interview, ignore the red flags, take the job and wonder why you are wasting your time. So how did this happen?  In the same way, it’s been happening for years on years on years. You let someone else define the job that you want. 

January 13, 2023

Greg Thomas

Requirements in Agile

Over the past few years, I would ask Product Managers or Business Analysts to send me some sample requirements so I could help out some new people on our team with how to write requirements.  If they were using Agile, I’d sometimes get back a response akin to – “Oh we don’t do requirements, we write notes” or “Yeah, I don’t have anything to send you because we don’t have documents on any of it.” To which my response would be – “but how do you know what you are building?” And the response to that would be – “Well,

January 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Welcome to the New Team

New Teams are always fun – and when I say fun I mean that cues up two immediate emotions. “Yes, let’s do this.” – ready to jump on a call and meet. “Yes, let’s do this.” – teeth chattering, worried about what that first call will be. Both are excited, one a little more nervous than the other which is key to identifying as a leader as this helps to develop your approach to the team meetings that you will have. Every leader is different, and every reason for the team is different so in those initial moments of newness,

January 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

Breaking Monotony

When what you are working on gets stale, uninspired, and never changing, it’s easy to get discouraged that “nothing” will get better and the only way to break out of the monotony of it all is to start looking elsewhere. Generally, when we do this we are racing somewhere else for a quick fix to get that change and break the cycle as quickly as possible, before monotony sets in again. It’s why starting new projects is so vibrant and exciting but getting them across the finish line is a shore within itself and fraught with ups and downs. Before

January 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

Creating your New Job

You can create a new job in your current job. You can show up differently. You can take on different tasks and tweak the process to get them done. You can automate your most mundane work to focus on the value-enriching work. You can cancel that update meeting and work through whatever you were going to talk about it and send out the update in an easy-to-read update or post to the team. You can’t change it all on the first day, but you can tweak your way to changing it until it looks completely different. You just have to

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