Articles for category: Leadership

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

March 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: Demo Day

I love doing demos, either attending or giving them.  I’ve written so much on them in the past; Plan Your Demos The Day after the Demo The Art of the Demo Demos Gonna Break Software Sales Demo are a Thing Reading those titles, I could still come up with more content to write on demos. This is why I’m always surprised to hear that someone doesn’t want to give a demo.  As a developer, the demo is the culmination of your work to show how you took words and made them into something tangible, how you took an idea and

March 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

How To Build a Great Team

I wrote this presentation and published it on Slideshare a number of years ago.  It was a fun look at the people, the personalities you need to make your team successful, and where leadership comes from. I did it around the time that the comic book movies were not as massive as they are today, but there are still few unknowns in there that might make you think. Here is the entire presentation – “How to Build a Great Team”.  

March 7, 2022

Greg Thomas

Gearing Up

We don’t wake up and are just ready to go and do something.  For an individual, it can be hard enough to get yourself going but for a team, it becomes multiplied by each individual’s personality, abilities, skills, and experience. Getting your team ready, pumped, on the same page (insert whatever other team you want to use here), I like “gearing up” is a task that you can’t do 5 minutes before the meeting. You need to think of; What do you want them to get out of it? What do you need to get out of it? What do

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