Month: June 2023

June 30, 2023

Greg Thomas

Learn or Search

The threatening piece about AI that is making it scary is that when you search for something – the results you get are pretty sophisticated. It’s not the robotic, chopped-up, paused voice of its predecessor, it’s a full-on hotel concierge waiting to help you at any moment and give you not just good, but great, actionable feedback. The same will happen if you learn something.  Actually, more will happen, because you will falter and make mistakes and from those mistakes, you will get better, you will understand the pitfalls of what you did wrong and you will figure out what

June 29, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Value of Prompts

Prompts are little pushes to help you do something. Reminders and Alerts are great prompts – “don’t forget you have an appt”. But there are other prompts, ones that are more valuable that you can give your team. “Hey, do we need time this week to clean up our tickets?” “We should work on those unit tests for all the code we wrote this past week.” “The team’s delivery is slipping… was there a reason you need to get ahead of?” Prompts are the little kicks on work that is important but can sometimes slide – they help us not

June 28, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Meetings are Missing?

Stated Outcomes. What do we want to achieve by the end of 15, 30, 60 minutes? “Everyone knows what everyone else is working on.” “We have a path forward to fix the problem.” “We will all understand the problem.” “Someone here will take ownership of this issue.” We don’t like stating outcomes because then it might “drive” the meeting, and that’s sometimes a bad thing when we want them to “flow”.  But driven meetings can have flow, they just flow faster.

June 27, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Gap Between Codes and Tickets

There is much discussion about what is written in a ticket and what is actually coded. In some cases, there is alignment, in others, it’s a quick close and onto the next ticket. In this case, the ticket doesn’t tell the story. The solution isn’t to shut down the world while you’re building and reworking all your tickets. The solution is to ensure there is alignment on what the final solution and if there is some “figuring out to do” while you’re coding, to update the ticket after the fact. When teams do this, not only do the developers know

June 26, 2023

Greg Thomas

Finding Free Time

You have free time, you just aren’t using it. You’re scrolling. You’re browsing. You’re wasting. You’re doing anything but you would truly like to be doing in your free time. And yes, resting is better than any of the above, that is a solid use of free time.

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