Articles for category: Team

January 28, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Biggest Remote Challenge

The biggest remote challenge isn’t about what your office setup is, what your meetings look like, the lunchtime pub sessions, how many coffee meetings you have in a day, or what entrance music you are playing. It’s about turning up every day and making sure it’s the best day for everyone on your team. Things go wrong because of Apathy, we let them drag out more when we are remote, when we are in person, we see the effects, we feel them and we know we have to fix them, but in remote, cracks can form, they are small, unnoticeable

January 24, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Apathetic Team

Team apathy doesn’t hit all at once, it starts slow and builds until one day you wonder how you got here. But there are signs that it might be happening on your team. People start working on “stuff” with no real goal in mind – priority, and severity go out the door. Things become “hard to explain” or “it’s all in their head” – generally because they don’t want to write it down. Customer tickets sit there longer than they used to. There is no such thing as updates on tickets anymore, just done or not done. No one starts

January 22, 2023

Greg Thomas

What’s the Worst that could happen?

And let’s not start with – it could all blow up in your face and the world could end. If the worst is that the next release might be later but your current release is already on track to be late, then the worst case is that you could have a late release (give or take). We use the “What’s the worst that could happen?” – excuse as a push-off to not doing anything because it sounds ominous and scary when it fact it’s not that bad. The only answer to – “What’s the worst that could happen?” is always

January 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Team Shakeup

Over time, teams stagnate, they become comfortable in what they are, who they are, who is the GOTO, and how things get done.  Little things have become embedded processes because “that’s just how we do and there is no point in trying something else”. It’s at this time that the team needs a shakeup, a jolt, a kick to try something new. Perhaps it’s switching people around (Jeff takes on customer tickets this month, Julie moves to back-end dev) or maybe it’s shaking up the overall delivery (let’s focus on shipping weekly vs monthly), whatever it is, the team is

January 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Welcome to the New Team

New Teams are always fun – and when I say fun I mean that cues up two immediate emotions. “Yes, let’s do this.” – ready to jump on a call and meet. “Yes, let’s do this.” – teeth chattering, worried about what that first call will be. Both are excited, one a little more nervous than the other which is key to identifying as a leader as this helps to develop your approach to the team meetings that you will have. Every leader is different, and every reason for the team is different so in those initial moments of newness,

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