Articles for category: Leadership

January 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Finding Pain Points

Every project has a set of pain points that aren’t a direct output of the project but are indirectly related to it. “We can’t find reference documents anywhere.” “People are always late for meetings.” “Meetings go on too long.” “Our architecture is a mess.” The list goes on and on and on. These are pain points to the delivery of the project. These are pain points that are not only slowing your team down, but are holding them back. These are pain points that threaten to hurt your team, weaken their resolve and kill their morale. These are the thousand

January 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Works on my Machine

As a Developer, I have always hated saying these words, it always feels a bit like a copout – like I didn’t do my job, left something out, forgot a scenario, ignored something, etc, etc. I don’t mind the jokes that come with it (and they do come, in waves and torrents). When this happens my first thoughts are; Don’t say it. Ask for logs. Get a screenshot. Work the problem. It’s that last one that is so important that separates the issue from being lobbed over the fence for someone else to deal with or for picking it up

January 16, 2021

Greg Thomas

Running vs Attending Meetings

There is a very common myth that attending a meeting is work. It’s not, it’s clicking an invite, listening to people talk and interjecting when you might have an opinion. Now, if you were to run the meeting, well this is different – because then you are having to think about who needs to be there, who will contribute, what do you need to prepare, what should the focus be, where do you want people to think about when they leave, what messages matter and on and on. Attending – you don’t need to do much. Running – you are

January 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

We Need More Experts

Without getting into a whole “thing” on experts, there is a common fallacy that when your team isn’t performing, you need more of them to get back on track. On a sorely undermanned project, of course, you might need more senior resources to jump in and get the ball rolling again. But in most cases, your projects are not at this point and what need isn’t an Expert, what you need is for your existing team to start learning and becoming an Expert. Better to have people on your team working to become experts than dropping one into the fold

January 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

The New Network

Will it be on LinkedIn? Twitter or Facebook? The algorithms have changed and the content that is sent to you has as well. This isn’t a conspiracy, this is a fact, things change, code gets optimized, what you think is the right way to do something, might not be what the actual owner of the company thinks is the best way to do it. You might both be wrong. If it’s getting harder and harder to keep up, perhaps it’s time to try another approach. We did it before.

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