Articles for category: Leadership

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

The Strategy Session

Daily meetings are tactics – what are we doing today, what did we do yesterday, where am I stuck? Everyone on the project attends and has their say. The Strategy session happens once a week. It’s not for everyone; it’s for the leadership, and it asks a different set of questions Are we moving in the right direction? Are we tracking towards our goal? What is holding the team back? How do we help? Strategy sessions need all the leadership there to make decisions and determine next steps for the week that will filter down to daily meetings. When done

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Now is the Time to Learn

There has never been a more important time to always be learning. I don’t know if there ever will (maybe when we get transporters). Each day, come out with something new – it doesn’t have to generate mass revenue and hockey stick growth in a day. It might not even pay off today. But in the next month, three months, or six, it will pay off. Now is the time to learn, schedule it, make it part of your daily cadence.

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

AI Doesn’t Do Half the Job

AI does all the job. Does it do it the right way? Debatable. But they always go all in on a task, without fail, right or wrong. Sometimes you have to go all in.  You can’t analyze and theorize forever; you can’t always stick your foot in the water. You have to do the whole job.

4 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

The Developer Leadership Balance

Team Leadership for developers is at a very tricky point right now. We have had code generators in the past that improved developers’ work, but we would never compare a developer to a generator. But now, agents and application generation are letting those thoughts permeate into our minds as we work and lead our team. It’s easy to show up to a meeting, now, and have a user type in a prompt, during a meeting, and show the app they have created in minutes. To add to this, many organizations are tracking token usage to ensure developers are using AI

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

How your Team is using AI

As a leader, if you are not asking yourself this question, you are not leading your team into the next era. Are they coding with it? Are they writing manuals? Are they letting it work for them? Is the team sharing skills? Are we all using different back-ends? You don’t have to have all the answers, but you need to be asking all the questions; someone else will, and they’ll be the ones people will be looking to lead the team.

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