Articles for category: Growth

November 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

What Growth Matters?

If you’re looking to learn something new, growth does not matter in your current skillset. If you’re looking to level up your knowledge from junior to senior, growth will come from niche focus. If you’re looking to become a better leader, the answers to growth will not come from your code. If you need to become a better coder, growth might not come from a generalist conference. The key is to find out and ask yourself the question, where do you want to grow and what steps do you need to take to get there, after that you’ll know what

November 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Product Delivery isn’t all about Introduction

This is a typical Product Lifecycle How long you are in each stage and the decisions you make in each stage vary from one to the other – they affect your thinking at the Product Management, Development, Testing, and Release levels. What’s funny is we talk about these stages when we are putting the product out for initial delivery but when was the last time you sat down with your team to ensure you’re building features designed for growth, practices for maturity, and support for decline. Don’t focus just on the Introduction.  

November 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Now vs the Later

Customer bugs will come in, and they will pop up when you least expect it – and no matter the issue, there are always two paths to get it resolved. Now What needs to be done to get the customer back to being on board with your product, using it, loving it, and incorporating it into everything they do?  This is the work that needs to happen immediately to get them back to operations. Later What do you need to do so this doesn’t happen again? Does it mean turfing this feature completely?  Does it mean rebuilding it?  Could other

November 13, 2022

Greg Thomas

Learn when you Don’t Want To

As much literature there is about learning, growing, getting better, and improving yourself – no one truly wants to start at ground zero all the time. Who wants to go through the feelings of figuring out something else for the first time over and over and over again?  At some point, you start to wonder where you are trying to get to. In those moments when I feel like I don’t want to learn something new is when I push myself my hardest to do it because I know it’s the part of me that doesn’t want to feel that

November 11, 2022

Greg Thomas

Listening Between the Words

You might have heard this phrased another way – “Reading between the Lines” – but what we’re asking you to do is listen for what is happening between the words. Are you not getting what is being asked of you? Are you asking for confirmation that you understood their issue? Are you arguing for what you want vs what they need? Listening between the words is figuring out the context, where the information is coming from, what it’s about, what matters, etc, etc – and those aren’t always read out to you word for word.

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