Articles for category: Leadership

June 24, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Road to Team Lead

Typically in software development, you become/apply/promoted to a Team Lead position based on your work and performance as a developer.  Which is why it is so critical when hiring developers that you look at the Leadership Quotient that they bring to the table. The day after a promotion to Team Lead is entirely awkward, whereas less than 24 hours ago you were only responsible for your code, now you all of a sudden you are responsible for; Projects People Performance All things that are not related to your performance anymore but instead the rest of your Team’s. This post is

June 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

Developer Leadership Quotient

Quotient – The number of times one quantity is contained in another. The need to hire someone in your organization is typically driven by the needs of the organization today – we have projects to complete, those projects must be completed to ensure the success of the organization, we cannot grow without the successful completion of these products. If you hire for the “now” you will most likely achieve the goal of completing the project that needed to be done today but you probably have not hired for to be able to grow tomorrow. In simpler terms – think about

June 22, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Leaving Tell

There are many tells to when we all think someone is going to leave and there is no right “tell” as we all have our own version of Spidey Sense. But here it is for me – when someone gets quiet and stops offering new ideas – you know something is amiss.  When they would rather not partake in the discussion but instead go along with it.  When their previous mantra of change has now been replaced with a mantra of “okay” you know that the passion has left the building. Now is the time to get worried. Are they forgone?

June 17, 2016

Greg Thomas

This is how we did it at my last place

Every new job you take something with you from the past one – something that might not have been your idea – but a great idea.  You take it and you bring it to the new one – “here let’s try this, it worked at my last place and could help us here.” Are you stealing?  Unless it’s Intellectual Property or something under an NDA – No.  You’re taking an idea, putting a twist on it and expanding on that original idea. This is how cultures are born and adapt, we take a piece of what we are and start

June 15, 2016

Greg Thomas

You have to Give to Get

It would be great if everything you needed came to you with no strings attached. Even better, what if every agreement or technical discussion went your way. If you want to manage, don’t give to get, demand it… eventually you’ll get it. If you want to lead, you’re going to have to give, something, maybe not today or tomorrow but at some point you are going to have to give something to your team, some other team, the person struggling beside you.  And it won’t be labelled – “here this is the right thing to do now” – but when

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