Articles for category: Leadership

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

March 9, 2020

Greg Thomas

User Ignored Requests

Guess what – users are going to ignore your suggestions for making their software better until they see it in action and realize you were right. The follow-up, they’ll forget the conversation ever took place. And Guess what, if the roles were reversed you probably would have done the same when the same discussion happened. Why? Because it’s not where your mind was at, not where the focus needed to be, not what the priority was, etc, etc, etc. The goal then becomes to get into the user’s mind and make this their focus, make this their priority, walk them

March 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

Code Your Way Up is Available Today

Aka – the Neverending Project. If you’ve been reading what I’ve been putting out over the past few years or engaged in some conversations on topics of software and leadership, I have good news – I finally finished the neverending project. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). Full details are available here on all the going ons and how to stay in the loop post-launch but most importantly, I would love to hear from those that read it, what are your thoughts, what resonates, what’s good, etc,

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