November 30, 2023

Greg Thomas

Hurry Up

We are one day away from getting everything you set out to do 11 months ago. If you haven’t gotten it all done, hurry up, stop wasting your time, get back in there, and get it done. No excuses, you should have had it all done by now, I have no idea what you were thinking or why you were thinking it. Get it together, get in there, and make it happen. (That’s where all the shock content is going now). Or you can realize what you did do, the paths you did take, the steps you might have missed

November 29, 2023

Greg Thomas

The only Losses that Hurt

The only losses that hurt, are the ones you ignore, write off and don’t learn from. Everything else is about growth and figuring out how to succeed next time. Don’t ignore the losses, grow from them.

November 27, 2023

Greg Thomas

There not called Task Points

Love them or hate them, Story points aren’t going anywhere. You can keep the debate rolling, you can keep arguing for points over hours or vice versa (I like vice versa myself). But remember, they aren’t called “Task Points”, there is, and always will be a duration to finishing a task – start, middle, end. Story points are an estimate, task work is the execution of the estimation, and you adjust your estimates (points) based on the execution of your tasks (the work).

The Same Meeting Over and Over

If you’re in the same meeting over and over and over again. It’s time to find a meeting where you aren’t. It’s time to find a team where it’s not the same. It’s time to find a project that won’t be holding you back.

November 25, 2023

Greg Thomas

Letting Your Team Run

You’re the only one that can. You can either hold them back or see what they can do. They will make mistakes, the question is whether they are the ones on the way to getting better or the ones that would have happened regardless. Either way, you have a choice.