Articles for category: Leadership

January 2, 2022

Greg Thomas

Have you Set your Team Goals yet?

If you haven’t, stop what you are doing and start thinking about this. Your team needs direction, they need purpose, they need to see the bigger picture in what will be for the upcoming year.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s the company’s or the team’s goals. Giving your team a purpose gives them something to fall back on whenever they hit a fork or roadblock in what they are doing? I could hack this together pretty quickly, but we’re trying to increase reusability this year. I know the Happy Scenario works, but building out some Edge Cases would help with

December 31, 2021

Greg Thomas

Greatest Hits of 2021

Here are some articles on Software Development Leadership this past year that resonated with people this past year.  I’m looking forward to writing more in 2022. What Successful Software Architects Do What Makes a Great Technical Lead 5 Metrics of Software Leadership Team Leads vs Software Managers The Software Manager Minimum

December 30, 2021

Greg Thomas

Where do we Start?

It doesn’t matter where you start per se, what does matter is that you start. That’s what your team needs you to do is start. Along the way you’ll figure out if it’s wrong or right, but today, what they need is for you to start.

December 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your List Just Got Longer

Because now you have all this other stuff to deal with that two days ago you didn’t have to do. Now things need putting together, patching and updating. Now your time is being pulled in different directions as everyone wants their piece delivered first but you are only one person. And of course, you have your own list of goods you want to work on. So the question is – where do you start? You could start with the riskiest or go to the quick wins to make the list shorter?  You could go with the stuff that costs the

December 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Delivery Eve

I often equate the night before a software release akin to Christmas Eve.  Everything is just so, all the plans are perfectly in place, the sign-offs are received,  the team is ready, on-calls are all set. Now all that’s left is to make it happen. Sometimes it goes off without a hitch, sometimes you forget to wrap something. But it always works out, and it’s one of my favourite days in any release.

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