Articles for category: Delivery

June 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

It all comes down to Priorities

If you’re constantly forcing your team to hop between priorities and shiny objects, chances are your team will never get anything accomplished. Not for lack of trying but for lack of direction. The job of a leader is to keep the team’s eye on the goal, on the prize, on the delivery. Any external influences coming in are the Leader’s job to handle and keep off the team. And if you’re worried about your team not delivery enough “things”, remind people that they are instead focused on delivering that one “thing” that you wanted done right, correctly and the best

June 22, 2020

Greg Thomas

Lack of Leadership

A void in leadership can demotivate a team from 100 to 0 in seconds. Where everyone is looking for an answer, a path, a direction, anything that they can follow as a guide, hearing nothing in return leaves you feeling stuck, lost and confused. So what do you do? Step 1, figure out what you can do. Step 2, do it. Step 3, bring people in to so they can become a part of what you are doing. Step 4, don’t stop. Leadership appears in all sorts of places, even in ourselves, when we least expect it. Want more? Check

June 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Today’s Summary…

It is okay to say to someone – you don’t need a summary for today’s meeting. Because you were there, in the moment, listening, taking feedback, asking questions, being a part of the conversation and listening to what everyone is saying. More than likely, you took your own notes. Summaries are for people who didn’t attend the meeting that need to know what was discussed. If you are leaving a meeting you just attended and need the summary to remember what was discussed and agreed upon, chances are… you didn’t attend the meeting. Want more? Check out my book Code

June 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

Everyone Delivers Value

On a project, you have to hold everyone to the same level of excellence, delivery and output. This doesn’t mean that everyone has to churn out 45 hours a week of work. It means that the value of their work that they are churning out is comparable. I can’t talk for what it takes to write brilliant requirements or come up with the latest and greatest test plans that will make your heart sing. I do know, that if you are putting all your efforts into making sure that developers are achieving a high-level of coding standard, you better be

June 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Momentum comes in all Forms

Don’t be fooled into thinking there is only one speed and that is the only speed of innovation, creativity, ambition, excellence, perseverance, direction and vision which culminates into momentum. There are many speeds to momentum, we all have it, we all go different speeds depending on the issue being worked on and resolved to. It’s not a race, if it was we all we would have loss, because when we boil it down to what we are all good at, we all have a variety of momentums for whatever it is that we do. And now that you know, remind

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