Month: February 2023

February 8, 2023

Greg Thomas

Leading Devs: Know your Leadership Style

You don’t have to have a leadership style to be successful. You don’t have to follow a set of rules or guidance as to what you do and follow the latest and greatest books and blogs. You can build your own style. You can sit down with yourself and ask that tough question – what kind of leader do I want to be? And from there, you can implement it day in and day out, tweaking as you go. The problem with many leaders is having that conversation with themselves can be very hard, very difficult to have, it’s easier

February 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Training Investment Dilemma

Incremental training investments will ALWAYS beat out the week-long conference, the half-day marathon leadership session, the full-day retreat – those are still good “things” to train at, but they are not the training that will push you forward. Kobe Bryant gives a great talk on this (less than 2 mins).  I’m not advocating for getting up at 3am to train, but the message is pure and simple – you put in 30 minutes today, that’s 30 minutes you didn’t put in yesterday – you keep putting in that time 3 – 4 days over the course of a week, that’s

February 4, 2023

Greg Thomas

How Will You Lead?

When things are going great? When things are going wrong? When you are at the top of your game? When you just got the latest, biggest, bestest promotion? When you just got fired or laid off? When someone left a bad comment on your latest blog? How you lead in the good and the bad will determine where you take yourself from here (no one else, just you).

February 3, 2023

Greg Thomas

Does the Whole Team Need Agile?

The developers are doing agile. Your testers are doing agile. The Product Team is doing agile. Does your finance, sales, and marketing teams need to do all of their work in agile?  Does your entire organization need to follow agile? No, they don’t. The benefit of agile is to deliver units of software that can be viewed and accessed by these teams in a more iterative way so they can see the building of the solution to the final product. Teams outside of your software delivery will never sell the iterations, they will always want the completion solution, the iterations

February 1, 2023

Greg Thomas

Waiting to Manage

Management and Leadership are two different things, neither can wait to happen. If your team doesn’t know what is happening or who is doing what, they need a manager, they need someone to jump in and help. That person is you, your team is waiting – it doesn’t have to be complicated – a Trello Board, Miro, Notion, Notepad, or anything that helps your team gets organized. Don’t wait.

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