Articles for category: Initiative

December 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Big Reset

Every project, every team, every endeavour, every clean-up needs a reset. Some need bigger ones than others. But the reset, that’s when you change it around, that’s when you take a moment, breathe it in and realize what needs to come next and what you need to do to get there. If you’re never resetting, you’re never taking stock of all that you have done and accomplished and tweaking your plan to move forward. The bigger the reset, the better the result. Also – people get scared when you reset, because they aren’t prepared, they aren’t ready for it and

December 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Remote – I’m still here

I think we’re still remote right? I mean there is lots of talk of people not being remote or being hybrid but for many, the world hasn’t changed – we’re still remote. So we’re still trying to figure out how to lead teams and work with people from separate parts of the globe right? We’re still trying to figure out what works and how to make it happen. We’re still making mistakes that were easy to avoid in the office. We’re still here, and we can still talk about it.  

November 30, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Idea of Agile

This was the idea behind Agile when it was introduced (written out better than I ever could). But how often do you revisit each one to see how you are doing and where you are with each one? How many of these “steps” have you taken?  Where are you in each one? It’s more than a Sprint but less than a project.  It’s a change that doesn’t happen overnight. When I work with teams that are switching to Agile, I ask each person to pick their Top 4 items from this list.  Everyone is different but it’s hearing from each

November 29, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: The Manager Minimum

I wrote this article on Medium a while back called the “Software Manager Minimum”.  At the time, I was writing about the bare minimum you need to be doing as a manager and leader on a software team in order to keep your team moving forward. In this I boiled it down to three questions you should always be asking yourself on a daily basis; What’s the Pulse of the team? How are we doing?  Where is everyone at?  Are we overloaded?  Where do they need my help? What do they Need? Are we constrained on human or technical resources? 

November 28, 2022

Greg Thomas

Processes Change

The process, the plan, the path you had laid out for today, that’s been working for the past few months, that after a constant back and forth you got everyone on board, for now, needs to change. It doesn’t mean the process didn’t work, it doesn’t mean the changes were bad. It means you’ve now outgrown them and now you need something else to keep managing yourself and your growth. If processes stayed the same forever, you’d still be using a bib every time you eat spaghetti, but they don’t, you grow, and they change. It’s not a bad thing.

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