Articles for category: Drive

January 5, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Join Meeting Experience

When you go to a meeting in a physical location you typically do the following; You take what you need. You go to the room. You start the meeting. When you go to a meeting virtually you typically do the following; Open the Invite Connect to the meeting (generally involves more than two clicks to confirm that you “really” want to go to the meeting. Show up in the meeting and fuss around with drivers as you try to connect. Wait for others to do the same. You start the meeting. There are many more minor steps in between but

January 2, 2023

Greg Thomas

Nothing is Ever Assigned to Me

Then go to the backlog and work on it. Ask your Product Manager what you can tackle. Look ahead to the next sprint. If your plate is clean, fill it up. Stop waiting for work to be assigned and start assigning it yourself.

January 1, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Spring in your Sprint

There is a kick in your step today as you start the first day of the New Year. Similar to the first day of a New Sprint where there is a kick to everything you are doing as you start fresh on the work you are doing. It doesn’t matter if the sprint has rolled over, if it’s continuing what you did before, or if it’s a bug being reported – you can’t change the fact that it’s the first day of the new Sprint. Your optimism is brimming over and it’s simply because it’s the start of something new.

December 31, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Rush to Get it All In

There are one of two things happening today. You are resting on your laurels, basking in the glory that everything you set out to do you got done. You are scrambling to get everything done in one day thinking it will make a difference and you can check that you got it all done. Neither is right, and neither is wrong, but no matter your goals, one or maybe both of those are happening.  When I look at the goals I set out last year, it’s the second category that made me question whether it truly mattered and whether I

December 30, 2022

Greg Thomas

The New Plans

New Plans are wrought from failed plans. They are built from the ashes of things that have gone wrong with the original plan with the hope to start again. Everyone loves a new plan when it finally comes into effect. But what hurts them, what holds them back is the admission that they were not needed until it was simply too late to put them into effect.

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