Articles for category: Leadership

March 23, 2022

Greg Thomas

Not Everything is a Technology Solution

It’s easy to think everything needs to have a technology component to it. If something is broken there “must be an app” for that or there must be a tool for it. My favorite example is when I left a job many years back and when I followed up with one of the developers they said – “we replaced you with a bunch of tools” – (pun intended and funny) – but it didn’t do what they want. Not everything requires a software solution to make it work, but we’ve started defaulting to it because it’s easier to download something

March 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: Listening to Your Team

As a leader, you need to deliver. You need to get things done and you do that through your team.  They are the indirect conduits to your success. You need to engage in motivation, inspiration, mentorship, and coaching.  You need to lead the way by jumping in and helping with bugs they don’t need to be doing and leaving the juicy stuff for them to work on. It gets hectic, super hectic – mid-project when everyone is struggling to see the finish line or end project when we are trying to make sure that we’re shipping the best project –

March 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

Reaching that Next Level

Leveling up in Video Games is pretty easy. They give you a progress bar, you gain experience, when you hit the next level you’re there – maybe they give you some kind of bonus or tool or trick or something. But you get the idea, it’s a known quantity – you work towards a metric and then boom level up. It doesn’t happen like that in life, because we don’t know where the next level is.  We are constantly searching for it. It gets frustrating because we never know when we’re going to reach that “next level” and instead we

March 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Tangibles vs the InTangibles

The Tangibles are the metrics, the numbers, the data, the things that you can’t argue about – “we delivered on time” or “we were late”. The InTangibles are the gut feelings, the thoughts, the ideas, the context.  You can’t measure them. The InTangibles are what people want to hear about because they generally provide the correlation and the context to the Tangibles. But you can’t talk about them until you have presented the tangibles. The job then becomes to make the tangibles known, as easily and as a quickly as possible so you can focus on what really matters –

March 13, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: The Software Manager Minimum

I wrote this article a few months ago called the “Software Manager Minimum”.  It was a quick take on what Managers need to do as their baseline to get buy as leaders for their team. I remember my first month of being a software manager feeling completely overwhelmed – so much was coming at me – releases, performance reviews, yearly objectives, team cohesion,  code issues, etc, etc. At the time, I didn’t know what the base minimum was that I had to do, I didn’t know where to start. This is why I wrote this –  The Software Manager Minimum

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