Articles for category: Initiative

February 13, 2023

Greg Thomas

Leading Devs: What value in a Meeting?

We all have meetings and they aren’t going anywhere. Status meetings, Standup Meetings, Townhall Meetings, Update Meetings, Meetings for the Meetings, Meetings that maybe could have been emails, New Announcement Meetings, Interview Meetings, etc, etc, etc, the list goes on. And when it comes to your team being involved in meetings there are only two questions you should always be asking yourself. Are they getting something out of this meeting? i.e., are they contributing OR are they coding away on something else? Do they know what the follow-up from the meeting is? If you aren’t engaged in a meeting, you’re

February 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Leading Devs: The Daily Pulse

Developers crank out code. Not by how many lines they do, or how much they get out the door, but by how they design it, test it, debug it, architect it, smoke test it, and compare it against different frameworks, etc, etc, etc. They do all that work to crank out code. When doing all those tasks, developers go into a tunnel (or the cave).  I love working in the cave, my headphones are on (sometimes no music), and I’m just working away focused on those problems because I need to get them done. To crank out code. As a

February 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Big List

Everyone knows about the Big List. The Top 10 Most Requested Features by Customers. The Top 5 Biggest Pain Points in our Software. The 7 Bugs that keep recurring. The 9 Test Cases that always Fail. The 4 Requirements that must be part of every story. Pick your list, but it’s a list, it might be big because of how many things are on it or big because of how important they are.  Whatever the reason, it’s a big list, an important list. The hard part is getting everyone aligned to the list so we are all moving in the

January 28, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Biggest Remote Challenge

The biggest remote challenge isn’t about what your office setup is, what your meetings look like, the lunchtime pub sessions, how many coffee meetings you have in a day, or what entrance music you are playing. It’s about turning up every day and making sure it’s the best day for everyone on your team. Things go wrong because of Apathy, we let them drag out more when we are remote, when we are in person, we see the effects, we feel them and we know we have to fix them, but in remote, cracks can form, they are small, unnoticeable

January 26, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Feeling of Failure

No, you didn’t get the award, it went to someone else. No, you didn’t get the promotion, that went to someone else as well. No, you didn’t get the thing you were after all the work you put into it and now you have to start all over again. It’s easy to feel like a failure, and it’s easy to give in to those feelings but what we need from you now is to put that aside, tweak what you are doing and focus on what’s next. Because what’s next will be better than today, if you let you’re willing

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