Articles for category: Initiative

March 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

Code Your Way Up is Available Today

Aka – the Neverending Project. If you’ve been reading what I’ve been putting out over the past few years or engaged in some conversations on topics of software and leadership, I have good news – I finally finished the neverending project. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). Full details are available here on all the going ons and how to stay in the loop post-launch but most importantly, I would love to hear from those that read it, what are your thoughts, what resonates, what’s good, etc,

March 4, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Title of Your Meeting

In most cases, people are receiving your invite on their phone where they can only see the title and have to click again to view the message contents. So that nice, big paragraph you wrote outlining what needed to be done in the meeting, no one saw it, no one read it. To top it all off, your title was something generic like – “Status Update” – when really it’s more, much more. If you want to get people excited for your next meeting, put your goal in the title, boil it down to one sentence, set the tone that

February 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Packed Bus Stop

We like getting a bus stop when it is packed because then we know the bus hasn’t come yet. Because than we know we are all in this together. Because than we feel like a team and we are all there for each other. The other option when you get to a packed bus stop… Is to complain that the bus is late. Is to gripe that there won’t be enough seats. Is to complain about the weather. A Leader makes sure that when you see the packed bus stop, you keep your mind on what is important and not

February 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Asking the Right Questions

Taking over the lead for something new is never an easy task. New Project New Team New Product New Test Process New _________________ If you are new to the project, there is generally a lot of upheaval going on, maybe you’ve been brought on to help with the last push, perhaps other people were kicked out. Whatever the reason, your goal always remains the same – how do I provide value to this “thing” that I’m now a contributor to. The piece that people always miss is that it doesn’t start with you just “doing stuff”. It starts with you

February 18, 2020

Greg Thomas

Reaching Out

The person that reaches out, isn’t the one who lost the argument – they are the one that cares about the solution, the problem or issue and understand it’s importance in finishing the project. Being the person who reaches out, isn’t a sign of weakness – it’s a sign of a leader that knows what comes first in delivering a project, isn’t the code or the final product – but the team itself.