Articles for category: Leadership

July 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

Software Built on Trust

I’ve written on this topic before in a few places (actually quite a few times based on a quick search of this site). But I decided to expand on it a bit for a recent LinkedIn article. If you’re building software, if you want to build great software, you need to start with trust. To take from the article…  Software Built on Trust starts with Development but it permeates it’s way through Product Management, Sales, Finance, everywhere the organization depends on that delivery. That’s what you can do when starting with the fundamentals of Software Built on Trust.

July 17, 2021

Greg Thomas

Bad News vs Ugly News

Bad News is not as good as good news. It is news nonetheless and not all bad news is truly bad news. Sometimes it’s an update – “we’re late on feature X because people have been away, this sprint we’re going to pour some people on in an attempt to catch up.” It’s bad, not good. But Bad News is never as bad as Ugly News. “We were late on Feature X, we didn’t want to tell you. We let it sit for too long and now throwing more people at it isn’t going to fix the problem, it’s just

July 16, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s Your Manual?

We all have one. It’s our internal guide for when we start a new team, a new project, a new job, a new something. It’s the four to fourteen steps on what we do when starting up. If you’re a leader it might look like this; Meet Team Figure out what I do. Meet Manager. Figure out what I need to do. Where is code? Schedule One-On-Ones And the list goes on and on, however long it is for you and the pieces and how many they number are all up to you. We all have manuals, some are more

July 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

Taking Action

Everyone knows what the problem is, everyone can see it. It’s the proverbial train coming at you that everyone can see and your entire team is deer stuck in the headlights. You know that feeling that is growing, deep in your gut. You can feel it. I know you can. If you don’t do something, the train will hit and splatter everywhere (gross but you get the picture). At this moment of time, they are waiting for you. Take the action, lead them away from the train.

July 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Changing Ideas Mid-Flight

How scary is this? You’re mid-way through a project and/or delivery and you have an epiphany to pivot, change, alter your course of action. Worst, before you justify it to others you have to justify it to yourself. Even worst, you can see the different paths laid out in front of you and what they can represent – the good, the bad, the possible. It’s enough to make your gut lurch forward and leave you frozen in a panicked state. But what may come from it, might blow you away. Or it might fall flat. Here’s the problem though, you

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