Articles for category: Leadership

December 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Team Grump

They come and go, but at some point, they will rear their head, whether it’s a good day, a great day, or for no other reason that you know, they will emerge – the Team Grump. The Team Grump doesn’t know care for what you are doing, when you are doing it, how much it will help them, or why they are there – all they want to do is get out of there as fast as possible and continue grumping because that is where they are at. Everyone is a grump at some point during their work, it’s impossible

December 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Focused Sprint

Sprints are built around a release and go iteration by iteration, they have goals, they have plans and they have a direction. But sometimes you need a much more focused sprint, around a problem, around an initiative, where it’s not just about the user stories and the tasks to be done, it’s about what you need to accomplish. The focused sprint isn’t about the release and the delivery, it’s about the thing you need to get done at that point in time.  When you’re running a focused sprint, there are no extra tickets brought into the mix, everything is pushed

December 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Leader’s Time Crunch

Whether it’s real or manufactured, the time crunch is inevitable. There are only so many hours left to get something done. Time is finite, the crunch occurs because time is finite, if time were not limited, there would be no crunch. The hard decisions then become determining what can be done in the crunch – no one wants to make these decisions because that means something won’t get done. But that’s what a Leader has to do, pick what has to be crunched, where the focus needs to be, and move from there not regretting the decision they made.

December 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

Keep Showing Up

Even when you screw up. Even when you have to read the documentation again. Even when it doesn’t make sense. Even when you are sore and beat down. Even when you aren’t sure where to start next. Keep.  Showing.  Up.

December 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

New Categories

I’ve held off on adding new categories to my posts for a while now as I generally think what you do comes down to behaviors of work that you do, but I know I’ve been writing about different areas of work that I’d like to bring more to the forefront and I’m also looking to change some of the content that I’ll be writing about. You’ll start seeing new categories such as Team (for remote, hybrid, office, team content), Ideas for posts that are simply that Ideas, and Developer where I want to get back to more technical content that

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