Articles for category: Leadership

August 18, 2023

Greg Thomas

Directionless Meetings

I dread a meeting that has no clearly defined beginning or end. It just starts… drones on… and ends somewhere… nowhere… anywhere? It doesn’t matter if it’s a 30, 60, 90, or 120-minute meeting, the result will still be the same… frustration at what you could have done during that time. So here we are, again, that meeting pops up that you know is going to end the same way it always does – what’s your next step? Ask what the goals are? Is there an agenda? Are we talking about things? Do I need to bring anything? One of

August 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

Frosh Week for New Teams

Imagine instead of being thrown into your jobs, your next project, or your work that the first thing you do with a new team is you get to know them. You spent some time getting to know them, talking to them about things they care about, figuring out their work ethic, what their strengths and weaknesses are, etc, etc. Putting together a plan with all of them contributing as to the direction the team should take, who they want to be known as, and where they want to go? Imagine if you did that BEFORE you started working and didn’t

August 15, 2023

Greg Thomas

New Teams

Joining a new team is never easy. You don’t know all the “things” and “isms” that make the team work (or are holding them back). Whether it is formal or informal, the new team is always waiting for one thing to happen – the leader to emerge – not to assert their dominance or mastery, but the one that helps out team members, that leads by example, listens, takes their lumps, does the grunt work and pushes on. The Leader might not be the one first appointed, but they are there, somewhere, perhaps even you, just waiting to emerge.

August 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Building the Bench

The bench does not get built overnight. Building your leadership team takes time. It takes thought, on both sides, those putting out the offerings, and those receiving them. Our natural inclination is to rush in and build a team as quickly as we can, but this will always fail as quickly as we started. Take the time, find the right people, talk to them, build the bench you need for today and tomorrow.

August 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Emergence of Delivery Teams

I’ve started to see more and more articles cropping up on delivery teams.  I have yet to write my own but this is great to see.  I’ve been using the term for a few years now as I’ve worked with more and more teams on the software delivery front. The idea for it came from the idea that it takes multiple roles to deliver a software solution, in a small company those roles can overlap and be handled by multiple people yet are always critical to the overall delivery – i.e., none can be missed. But at the heart of

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