Articles for category: Growth

December 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Knowledge Window

When someone leaves your team, there is a window from the point when they announce when they are leaving to when they actually leave.  That window is the amount of time you have to get all of the training this person has learned in their time with you and download it to another person. These are the interactions you don’t want to push off and you want to kick off as soon as possible to see what you need to learn from them. Guaranteed as soon as you have that first meeting, you will see the immediate need for second,

December 6, 2022

Greg Thomas

Only the Team Can Win

If you’re not on a team, it’s all you, there is no “we”, it’s just you, and that’s fine. But when you’re on a team, no matter what your role, you’re on a team, and that means only the team can and will ever will.

December 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

The False Plateau

Just when you think you have reached where you want to be, when you have hit all your goals, you realize that this isn’t where you want to be at all. You want to be somewhere further up, you want to change your game and go in a different direction, you might look back down and realize something you skipped over to get here and then decide that where you are isn’t where you need to be. Plateaus are not the goal, they are not the end result.  They are the launchpad for what comes next. Enjoy them, but don’t

November 29, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: The Manager Minimum

I wrote this article on Medium a while back called the “Software Manager Minimum”.  At the time, I was writing about the bare minimum you need to be doing as a manager and leader on a software team in order to keep your team moving forward. In this I boiled it down to three questions you should always be asking yourself on a daily basis; What’s the Pulse of the team? How are we doing?  Where is everyone at?  Are we overloaded?  Where do they need my help? What do they Need? Are we constrained on human or technical resources? 

November 28, 2022

Greg Thomas

Processes Change

The process, the plan, the path you had laid out for today, that’s been working for the past few months, that after a constant back and forth you got everyone on board, for now, needs to change. It doesn’t mean the process didn’t work, it doesn’t mean the changes were bad. It means you’ve now outgrown them and now you need something else to keep managing yourself and your growth. If processes stayed the same forever, you’d still be using a bib every time you eat spaghetti, but they don’t, you grow, and they change. It’s not a bad thing.

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