Articles for category: Leadership

January 12, 2018

Greg Thomas

Designing without Knowing the Problem

How do you start designing a solution without understanding the requirements? How do you start building the marketing campaign without knowing your audience? How do you starting testing for performance when you don’t know the baseline to start from? You definitely can start doing all these things, no one is stopping you. But you will miss the mark simply because you and your team didn’t understand the problem when they started working on it. And without knowing what problem you are going to solve, you will always get it wrong.

January 5, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Teaching Moments

There is always an opportunity to teach. A failed attempt. A bad deployment. A missed requirement. A wrong code path. A performance review gon awry. A deadline missed. The question is whether you are going to turn all those opportunities into a moment or let them pass you by for someone else to take the lead and do so.

January 3, 2018

Greg Thomas

Don’t Forget that you are all in it Together

It’s easy to forget. You are working late at night, looking around the room and seeing only you. You are first one in, in the morning, looking at your IM list and seeing only you online. You post questions on your SLACK channel, that you later respond to. The frustration rises up inside of you as you can’t believe that no one else is around to help you when you need it and that you are doing everything else on your own. But you aren’t. Maybe no one knows the answers to your questions. Maybe the rest of the team

December 29, 2017

Greg Thomas

At the end of the Tunnel…

The greatest feeling of any project? The end is in sight, you can see the light. All the late nights and early mornings of coding and working are finally coming to fruition. Everything you planned for is progressing just as you expected it would. The planets are aligning. It’s the greatest feeling in the world. And at the same time, it’s always met with the same set of questions? “That’s it? We’re done?” To which the answer is “Yes”until you get on the next train headed for a new tunnel.

December 28, 2017

Greg Thomas

Rushing to Wrong

We are all very good at Rushing to the Wrong answer when trying to solve a problem. We throw details out the window and became blinded by the end goal and direction we want to go in. We are so close that we can “taste it” and know we are on the right path. But in our efforts to get there, and only when we get there, do we finally realize that we were chasing the wrong problem, going down the wrong path and had absolutely no idea what problem we were trying to solve. When you start with everyone

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