February 19, 2024

Greg Thomas

Are you Leading Stress?

If all around you is stress, chances are you aren’t shipping much. Chances are you’re behind, you’re not on time and nothing is helping you move forward. It’s not for lack of effort, but rather because you’re focused on leading only one thing – stress. But, you can’t lead stress. You can manage stress – you can mitigate it, break it down, isolate its touch points, figure out what is causing it, and adjust from there. But you can’t lead it, no one starts off leading stress. This is where a manager helps the leader manage the stress to that

February 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

Can you Build bit by bit?

If you can’t code 8 hours a day. Can you jump in, on small tasks, and hammer out 1 hour a day? If you can’t do 5 hours a week can you find time to do 3? Bit by bit is the origin story of many overnight successes.

February 17, 2024

Greg Thomas

No, this is the Release Where we Fix Everything

The next Release is always going to be the best. Until that work gets pushed to the next release. If you commit to fixing everything now, this release will become the best release where you fix everything and next release – who knows what next release will be because you won’t be spending all your time trying to fix it.

February 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

A Barrel of Monkeys

Alone, in the game of a barrel of monkeys, each monkey can accomplish nothing, just lie there flat on the ground waiting for a pickup. Together, they can hold onto each other, lift each other up, and support one another, achieving what neither could do alone. Never doubt what the monkeys can do.