Articles for category: Leadership

March 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Who is doing what?

The question you always need to ask at any point in a project – Is who is doing what? Who is on that feature? Who is on that user story? Who is working on that bug? What are they moving onto next? It’s the toughest question to ask because immediately the person doing the work thinks – “how do you not know what I’m doing?” But they do, and they will because perhaps a few weeks ago you all decided on what was to be worked on, but things have changed since that time (perhaps even if it’s a week)

March 16, 2021

Greg Thomas

Making an Impact

An impact starts small, it’s not all at once. You pound through it, break against it, chip away at it – day after day after day which turns into week after week. And after awhile of trying to do something, you take a step back and realize the dent, the hole, the whatever you have made. The Impact. The same is with a team, want to have them trust and believe in you? Show up every day, do the small things that matter, that help them, that grow them. Look at what they need, not what you need. The difference

March 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

Burnout and Breakers

When there is too much power coming into one wire (outlet or breaker), it causes an overload and trips the switch. To get things running again, you need to manually go to the electrical box, find the offending breaker (which is generally coloured orange so you can find it easily enough) and flip it back on so it can start taking power again. Generally, before you do this, you probably want to unplug a few things, so the next time you restart it, it doesn’t trip again. Otherwise, it’s only a short matter of time until it trips and you’re

March 13, 2021

Greg Thomas

Building Communities

On one of our most recent episodes of Remotely Prepared we spoke with Bekah Hawrot Weigel on the importance of creating Communities and all she has done with her developer community VirtualCoffeeIO. Bekah has a great story to share on all that she has worked through during the Pandemic, going remote, being there for her family and on top of all of that – building an incredible community loved and used by Developers all over the world. Take a listen. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/building-community-with-bekah-hawrot-weigel

March 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

Replicating the Office Experience

You can’t replicate what you did before in the office. Running into people in the hallway. Chatting in the lunchroom. Picking up someone who is stuck on a bug by buying them a coffee. Having a random, yet project altering conversation about whatever it is you are working on that started off with a conversation about what font we are using. All those things are not going to happen the way they used to. They can still happen, but we need to find the different ways, the new ways to make them work. We’re redrawing our neural pathways daily to

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