Articles for category: Leadership

3 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Developer Leadership Balance

Team Leadership for developers is at a very tricky point right now. We have had code generators in the past that improved developers’ work, but we would never compare a developer to a generator. But now, agents and application generation are letting those thoughts permeate into our minds as we work and lead our team. It’s easy to show up to a meeting, now, and have a user type in a prompt, during a meeting, and show the app they have created in minutes. To add to this, many organizations are tracking token usage to ensure developers are using AI

3 months ago

Greg Thomas

How your Team is using AI

As a leader, if you are not asking yourself this question, you are not leading your team into the next era. Are they coding with it? Are they writing manuals? Are they letting it work for them? Is the team sharing skills? Are we all using different back-ends? You don’t have to have all the answers, but you need to be asking all the questions; someone else will, and they’ll be the ones people will be looking to lead the team.

3 months ago

Greg Thomas

Spring Cleaning

The weather gets warmer. The sun comes out. And the urge to clean comes out. Windows and doors are open. Boots and heavy jackets are put away. It’s the time of year for renewal. It can apply to your house, your job, your role, and your current project. No one ever complained about Spring Cleaning!

3 months ago

Greg Thomas

Free Lunch

I like Free Lunch. I don’t read too much into it – pizza is pizza, sandwiches are sandwiches, burgers are burgers. It’s a fun time to hang out and chat with people. From a manager’s point of view, it takes nothing to create this environment – $100 – $150 – depending on the size of your team, if you look at what they earned you in OT this week, you’re still saving $4k. Sometimes you work for a place that doesn’t have $4k, but they have $150 to say thanks. I don’t think a free lunch replaces your salary, but

3 months ago

Greg Thomas

What Your Team Needs

It’s not an easy time to be leading teams these days. If you’re running a software team, here are some things I’d be considering; Yes, AI is here, let’s focus on what we have to do and how we can leverage it. Let’s focus on the value we create in our work. Working on legacy code?  Great, there is a need for that, but our plan will be to move forward and remove it. Are there areas for automation we should investigate to help the team work better? The team works better when it is moving as one, when concerns

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