Articles for category: Leadership

September 19, 2019

Greg Thomas

Onboarding a new Team

No one ever asks you to onboard a new team when there is nothing to do. It’s not a thing. There is always pressure. Always work. Always demand. Always the need for it to have shipped yesterday. So now that you know what you’re up against, build a plan that onboards your new team taking into consideration all those emotions that they are feeling. Reassure them that they will get there, listen to their feedback, count to ten, whatever it takes for you to stay calm and get things working with them. If they are super green, they will have

September 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

Finished

I finished a big project I’ve been working on for a few years. Yup it took that long, between multiple starts and stops, being worried about how it’d turn out and not sure if it’d ever get done, I finished. Here’s how I did; I let the voice in my head that kept saying it was garbage to keep talking and sat down at the keyboard and pounded out intervals and intervals of work. I broke the day into intervals, what was finished was finished, what wasn’t would move onto the next interval. I got help from people that knew

September 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

You can get it wrong

You can put your best work out there for months and months and have it on shuffle all the while it is wrong. It’s never written in stone. You can always write an update. Always deploy a patch. Always, update the policy. Always admit that you’re wrong and try again. (but it’s the last one that kills us, because that’s the one that forces us to admit we got it wrong and move forward). Easier said, than done.

September 16, 2019

Greg Thomas

Leaders Can Code

You can do both. You don’t have to give up one to do the other. You aren’t measured by how good you are by doing the other. There is no ying or yang, give or take, pull or push. Leaders do code, they can code, they want to keep coding. What they don’t realize (the leaders that don’t code) is the only person stopping them from coding, is themselves. Unless you have a boss that said – “stop coding, lead now” – the decision was all your own. Not to worry, you have plenty of time to get back at

September 10, 2019

Greg Thomas

Good Teams Gone Bad

Good environments, great teams, amazing delivery environments, go bad. In can be a result of any number of factors; familiarity, history, hubris, laziness, indifference, whichever the factor you choose. But good teams can go bad. The goal is to make sure it doesn’t happen to yours and to always keep the focus where it should be. To that end; Keep them on target – distractions are a team’s worst enemy. Remind them why they are here – we all forget. Keep Levelling Up- don’t let them rest on their laurels, encourage them to reach for more. Focus on each member

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