Articles for category: Initiative

January 23, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Agile Myth

The myth in Agile is that it is meant to make you go faster. It’s not. It’s about working on the right thing, at the right time and delivering value to your customer. It’s about avoiding statements like… “We shipped, but no one is using it.” “No one wanted all this extra stuff.” “It doesn’t do what we thought it was going to do.” Agile is about feedback and validation loops to ensure the right thing is always being worked on. Going faster is just a by-product of working on the right things that matter.

January 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Fallacy of Process for One

A process is meant for a group of people to start doing something a particular way. When a group of people follows the same thing, the group becomes more efficient. Process gets a bad rap because the image of a hammer is immediately crystalized in our minds. If everyone logs bugs in a different way that becomes hard to track, eventually the way that works for the team becomes the template, and the steps become the workflow that becomes the process. A good process helps teams get past the stuff that is not their job and lets them focus on

January 14, 2023

Greg Thomas

Are you Applying for the Wrong Job?

It’s quite possible you are. You see a job title that entices you, a description that makes you go – “I could do that” – and you apply to it. Then you sit down in the interview, realize it’s not what you want, and wonder why you are wasting your time. Or you go through the interview, ignore the red flags, take the job and wonder why you are wasting your time. So how did this happen?  In the same way, it’s been happening for years on years on years. You let someone else define the job that you want. 

January 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

Creating your New Job

You can create a new job in your current job. You can show up differently. You can take on different tasks and tweak the process to get them done. You can automate your most mundane work to focus on the value-enriching work. You can cancel that update meeting and work through whatever you were going to talk about it and send out the update in an easy-to-read update or post to the team. You can’t change it all on the first day, but you can tweak your way to changing it until it looks completely different. You just have to

January 8, 2023

Greg Thomas

You’re Hired – Now What?

Some say you immediately start looking for your next job the moment you get the current one. But that means you’re not focused on giving your best in your current job, instead, you’re focused on what’s next, what’s after, and where are you going afterward. It splits your focus on what you need to do and where you want to go.  And it sends the signal you aren’t happy where you currently are and missing out on what it could be offering you. I go the other way, if you are signing on to join a company if you have gone

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