Articles for category: Leadership

March 25, 2020

Greg Thomas

Stay Still

With all that is happening in the world around us, everything is being affected, even our daily discourse and what we write about. Staying still is very hard to do. Our parents have been trying to get us to do it since we were kids – “Sit Down, Stay Still, Don’t Move!” How long did you last? Not long I imagine, I sure didn’t. But now we are having to stay still for a different reason, one that not only affects us but those around you. It’s hard, but if you think of those around you, it gets easier. Code

March 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Roles in a Team

We can’t all be leaders on the same team, it doesn’t work. Everyone would be suggesting their own approach and we would get nowhere. We need skills, we need people who can get things done, others that focus on short-term and long-term goals. We need people who are working with other teams and coordinating efforts and we need people who are on the bench ready to jump in when the moment arises. That’s what a team does, that’s what happens when you form teams within your community to support each other and what you put them together, you build a

March 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Run With the Team

Not to be confused with – “Run the Team”. Leaders run with the team, before they ask their team to do something, they are doing it with them, they are trying it out before they ask them to, they are considering it before asking the team to do the same. Managers don’t run with teams, they run teams, they ask teams to consider options, ask them to try new things out and do things. It’s harder to spot in an office setting, but in a sports setting it’s simple. The leader who runs, is running, up there with this team.

March 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

New for the Sake of New

When you’re working with all the “new” stuff, everyone wants to use it. Everyone wants in on it. What was new is now old and who wants to work with that. This is great for learning and great for advancing your software and it’s capabilities. But if you don’t know why you are using it? Well then you are just doing some new because it’s new and not because it can actually help you out. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

March 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

Escalating Confusion

The scariest thing I see in any software delivery team is confusion. Running out of licenses? That can be fixed. Not sure what development platform to use? You’ll figure it out. The User Interface looks like garbage? We can buff it out. The app is too slow? We can make it faster. But when the team is confused, when the team doesn’t know what they should be doing, or what direction they should be headed? That’s scary, everything else can be triaged, managed or handled. But you can’t triage confusion, you can’t manage it and the only way to handle

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