Articles for category: Initiative

November 11, 2019

Greg Thomas

Before you Review Someone’s Work

If someone asks you to review your work know that two things are happening at that point in time. They want feedback on what they could do to improve what they have created. They value your thoughts and opinions on what they are creating. Saying – “looks good” or “this is great” or “amazing work” is not feedback or a review of someone’s work. It is a confirmation that you have received the work disguised as having reviewed it. A better response is – “I don’t have time to look at this right now, but will make time next week

November 8, 2019

Greg Thomas

More Than the Next Sprint

If you find yourself consistently pushing out work to the next sprint, then I have some bad news for you. You’re not doing anything closely related to either SCRUM or Agile, you’re simply doing work and let it roll on and on and on and never delivering anything. If it takes you six weeks to deliver something you thought would take two, learn from it, what could you have done better? What made you think you could do it in two? How can you plan for it better next time and avoid the same mistakes? If you can’t avoid the

November 6, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Show of Force Meeting

The Show of Force Meeting is an exercise in seeing who can get the most people to the table where only two people talk. It’s either a showing of how many people believe in my idea or an opportunity to show how many “influencers” you can get to the table. In either case, it’s a waste of everyone’s time. If you’re having to gather forces for a meeting, the goal of what the meeting was initially about is already lost because whatever it was for has now turned into something else altogether.

October 30, 2019

Greg Thomas

You Didn’t Use the Template

That’s an after the presentation discussion. When developing a deck on a new set of content, a new set of ideas, a new approach or initiative, the last thing that truly matters is what template you use. What matters is the content. What matters is the idea. What matters is the next step. What matters is what comes from the presentation. If people are more concerned about your formatting and template, then the content you are building is not for them because they are not looking at the ideas, not looking at what you are trying to achieve and definitely

October 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

Going Backwards

In sports, passing back is one of the hardest skills to learn as you grow older. For years you’ve taught to push through, go forward, don’t stop, look up, look at the goal, etc, etc (enter all the sports here). But to get to the next level, you need to learn to pass backward. You need to use your team. If you look ahead and they are all busy, the person behind you is the one who needs the pass, not in front. The goal is that will alleviate the pressure so that this person can then pass up and

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