Articles for category: Growth

April 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

Outlines are a Start

You have an idea. You have a direction. You can see the path. But it means nothing if you don’t execute it.  If you can’t take the team end to end.  If all you are going to do is talk about the promised land, all they are going to do is hear about it and they need much more than that from you. They need the work, they need the structure, the content, the information. And they need it in the form that you learned about it. Knowledge transfer is never easy, but when done right, it can be the

April 12, 2022

Greg Thomas

Remote Connections and Daily Standups

There is no “best way” to do Standups.  I’ve done them at various different companies, all in different ways, some have been great, some not so great, some downright painful. What matters is you don’t give up, you recognize that each team is different and you move forward. Here are some thoughts on the subject via Remotely Prepared.

April 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Hidden List

The hidden list is the one we all have at the back of our heads, in the dark recesses of our minds where we are all trying to work things out.  All those nasty bugs and issues that have laid waste to our systems that we don’t store in JIRA and DevOps and instead we let them take up space in our minds until it beats us down because we are so consumed by the weight of what is and isn’t being tracked. There is a solution to the Hidden List. Write it down, put it in JIRA, put it

April 7, 2022

Greg Thomas

Where are all the Parents?

We did a great recording (almost a month ago) on Remotely Prepared that was focused on the Great Resignation and the impact on parents. Both being parents ourselves, it was a great episode – Why are all the Parents Resigning?

April 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Starting the Cycle Again

Delivering software is all about cycles, the biggest one being you finish one delivery, the next one starts up, we rinse/repeat and do the same dance again. We try to optimize the cycle as much as we can, do requirements early, get code into QA sooner, work on smaller pieces as we go – but at the end of the day it is a cycle that starts over and over again. The challenge for a leader, therefore, becomes, how to make each cycle different, how to ensure it’s fresh, different, and not monotonous, and how to keep your team engaged

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