Articles for category: Delivery

March 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Focussed Team

It might seem as though you are being mean when you dissuade conversation or try to bring people back to the focus and purpose of the meeting. It’s even odd that this would be interpreted as mean. A team that goes into a meeting, chat on a topic for an hour with no discernible outcome is the definition of a “meeting that could have been an email.” Set the goal for the meeting, if you find your team drifting, bring them back to the reason they are there, why they are on the call, why you are all talking. There

March 20, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leading Technical Debt

It happened, you have debt, and right now it might be akin to standing in a room with a mess all around you and you don’t know where to start. Despite everything that’s around you, you can’t do it all at once, to do so would mean putting the breaks on everything else you are doing – which most companies cannot afford primarily because customers are key. Where to start? Get the small wins – start small – pick up your clothes, throw out the garbage – see the floor (you might be missing something). What is hurting you?  I

Finishing Up

When you leave, you finish strong. You bring the end game. You leave no doubt who they are losing and what your potential is. You let them know they had the best and the brightest and they made the wrong trade. This isn’t about showing off or lording it over them. This is about doing what you have always done – driving to the problem, taking the initiative, and leading the way.

Reaching that Next Level

Leveling up in Video Games is pretty easy. They give you a progress bar, you gain experience, when you hit the next level you’re there – maybe they give you some kind of bonus or tool or trick or something. But you get the idea, it’s a known quantity – you work towards a metric and then boom level up. It doesn’t happen like that in life, because we don’t know where the next level is.  We are constantly searching for it. It gets frustrating because we never know when we’re going to reach that “next level” and instead we

Are you Ready?

Probably not. No one is ever ready for what is coming their way, if they were, they would be doing it. The usual response to this question is usually – “I guess” or “Okay” or “I think”. Unless you’ve done this task 17 times before, no one can ever say for sure that they are ready with 100% confidence. But that’s not the question we’re asking whether you’re ready to complete the task, what we’re asking is; Are you ready to take the lead and figure out how this works? Are you ready to learn something new? Are you ready