Articles for category: Initiative

October 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Its the Recovery that Matters

I don’t worry about the falls. I don’t worry about the slipups. I don’t worry about things that are missed. Because we’ll figure it out, we’ll learn how to get better, we’ll figure out what we did wrong and fix the problem. The recovery is what I look for, if you can bounce back from defeat, from failure, from mistakes – that’s what will always matter. Will you blame your team? Will you beat yourself? Will you lash out at everyone else? Or will you lead the team out, accept the problem and move on?

October 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

What can your Team Do?

That’s the question you need to be asking yourself as their Dev Manager all the time. What can they do? What can they do that they are not doing? What can they do if I let them have a run at it? What can they do if I took a step back? What can they do if I left the planning up to them? The goal isn’t to overload your team and gives them MORE work to do, the goal is to find out what they can do that they are being held back from doing.

October 18, 2021

Greg Thomas

Time for a Rewrite

I don’t think “anyone” wants to rewrite their code (or someone else’s for that matter). But sometimes you have to because whatever it is that is being asked of you cannot scale in what you have built. That’s the Software game, sometimes you need to rebuild it and start from scratch. Housing and construction are often compared to building software with many of the same phrases being interchangeable. The same applies to a house, if the changes are so significant that the entire house is liable to change or the current foundation cannot support it, you guessed it – time

October 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Finding a New Room

When everyone was together at the office, we would use the expression – “Let’s get in a room and figure this out”. But there are no rooms, they are all closed up. If you’re a company that is now “remote first” you won’t have these rooms again. But this phase still matters – “Getting into a room and figuring this out”. This is why you need to find a new room to capture the same message and evoke the same feelings you used to have when you were on site, together and you could do this. This is what your

October 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

Are you Right for it?

There are jobs we have that we are not right for. We have all had roles that we were completely mismatched for – you might have thought it was the thing you’d been dying for, but in reality, you were catfished and now you’re doing something completely different. Even still you might have a job you were hired for with a title you aspire to be, but what you are doing is nowhere near what you actually signed up to do. Were you miscast? Did you do it for money? For fame? For the title? Whatever it was or is,

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