Articles for category: Leadership

August 1, 2023

Greg Thomas

Sprint Planning Goes Boink

I’ve sat in many Sprint Planning meetings and whether they go well or badly always comes to the same thing – what are we working towards? When everyone knows what they are working towards, and what the end goal is, they go very well, extremely well, and are very successful. When everyone doesn’t agree on what we are working towards, they go off the rails with esoteric discussions and back and forth on topics that take up the time in the discussion and end up providing little to no value.  The team leaves the meeting wondering why they have to

July 30, 2023

Greg Thomas

Light(en) it Up

Any job has a stressful component to its delivery.  No job is perfectly stress free (sorry) and some are much more than others.   Yes, pizza lunches don’t solve the bigger problem, but when bought from your manager’s pocket for the benefit of their team – yes, it is worthwhile and can be appreciated as they try to do something with all that they have available to them. Perhaps it won’t solve all the problems, but maybe it will provide a few hours of levity, laughs, and overall silliness as everyone bonds toward making things better with what they have.

July 25, 2023

Greg Thomas

Team Ignition

You can plan for it but guaranteed it won’t happen you want it to. Team Igntion happens the moment your team comes together and things start clicking amongst everyone in the group.  Everything starts happening and pieces start moving forward. You don’t know what made it happen, why it started now and not before, but this is the moment where it all starts happening. You can create the conditions for it, you can nurture it and grow it, but when it happens is anyone’s guess, the worst thing you can do – is try to force it.  Forcing it only

July 23, 2023

Greg Thomas

Focussing on Team Wins

A team wins when a team comes together. Those wins will always be subjective to you as the leader of the team – you know the difference between when the team is doing what they should do versus when they do something really great and come together for something entirely special. There is no category A or B when you’re picking Team Wins – every team is different and has a different set of goals and wins – don’t compare yourself to other teams – focus on what your wins are and make sure to celebrate them.

July 22, 2023

Greg Thomas

Failure to Sprint

When you learned how to walk and fell flat on your face the first time did you give up? (Maybe for a bit). The same goes for Sprints and any new development process you are implementing – it’s not success out of the box – it’s a slow burn growth and then mass acceleration once it clicks with your team. If you fail to sprint the first time, start jogging the next (remove tickets), build up a tolerance, figure out what works for your team, and then try again. But don’t throw it all out because it didn’t work the

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