Articles for category: Leadership

February 2, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Difference Accountability Makes

If you are accountable for your actions, whether right or wrong, succeed or fail, but mostly when you are wrong and you fail – you will change the culture of your team overnight. No longer will they think they need to hide and toil away mercilessly in the background trying to get something fixed before someone notices. In meetings, they will speak up about something being broken and not let it go down the line. Accountability stamps out apathy before it can even take root. The beauty is, it all starts with one person, and then everyone sees the impact

January 31, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Great Resignation for Developers

I came across this article last week on StackOverflow – The Great Resignation as it applies to Software Developers. It’s a pretty good read – unfortunately, it’s nothing new – all of these elements of being a software developer existed before – all the Pandemic has done has made them visible (more so before). Burnout is not new, the term might have even been invented by Software Developers. The section on “Challenges for Managers and Team Leads” was missing something though – GROWTH. Everything mentioned previously in the article speaks to why developers are leaving – freelancing, more money, culture

January 29, 2022

Greg Thomas

Embedded Leaders

Whether it’s a team you work side-by-side with, interact with, or talk to now and again. You won’t get a view as to just how things are truly working until you embed yourselves within all the activities you do. The standups, the team meetings, the updates, the delivery, everything. It’s only then you can get a feel for how things are working and what needs to be done to help them. If you’re not on the inside, if you’re not side-by-side with them, all you’re doing is watching. You can’t sit beside them in a remote world, but you can talk

January 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

This Week’s IceBreakers

We are still remote. We are still leading our teams remotely. And as much as we would like to accept that this is how things are, we can keep doing the little things that made us better in the first place and got us over those earlier humps. We just need to work at it. Whether it’s a new team or an existing one, some good Icebreakers to get things started; What was your win last week? What did you get out of this weekend? What is your goal for this week? What can we help you with this week?

January 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: Growth and Scale

I wrote two articles last year on Growing your Software Team, the first was the more obvious (add bodies), the second was not so clear (grow by skills, career, succession). Grow By Body Grow By Skill At some point, you need to do both. Growing by Body isn’t hard, you interview, you ask questions, you select a candidate, you make an offer and you hire. Growing by Skill requires mentorship, guidance, coaching, planning, training, One-On-Ones, discussions, feedback (not validation), and patience. We default to Growing by Body because it’s easier when we should be defaulting to Growing By Skill, not

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