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June 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

Are you with the Team?

Or are you on the team? There is a HUGE difference. If you are on the team, you are there my nature of being around. You were assigned to the team and it’s where you report to. You do what is asked of you and are compensated for your accomplishments. But if you are with the team, you do what needs to be done to get work out the door. You look at the rest of the team, see who has a heavy load and jump in to help. You jump in when the team needs it and offer help

June 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

A new Meeting Type

I call it the Upfront – it might have other names to you, but this is possibly the least offensive one. What happens at the Upfront? The upfront is a meeting where everyone that is attending knows that brutal honesty is required. There is no room for niceties and hand holding, it’s an all out discussion that would take place in a warroom if it were happening. There is a big problem and it requires everyone’s heads to get through it. The upfront is not there for solutioning, the upfront has only one goal – get everyone on the same

June 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Sounds of Work

What does that sound like to you? The sound of a keyboard furiously hitting the keys? The sound of a chainsaw revving up? The sound of knuckles cracking? The sound of laughter and excitement? The sound of silence? Whatever it is, we all have them, they are the sounds that when we hear them, we know amazing work is going to get done, be produced and wow us. Find your sounds.

June 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Automate What is Holding you Up

There is an old adage that developers are lazy and will automate what they don’t want to do. I don’t know if this applies to developers per se. I mean I could walk to work, but driving a care is faster and if I have a self-driving car, I’ve pretty much automated the task for myself haven’t I? Irregardless of my profession. But Automation is a promise and always will be. A promise to fix a problem and give you back what you seek, time. Time to build and create new things that were otherwise taken up by these manual

June 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Continually Postponed Meetings

Pushing out a meeting once is okay, acceptable, go for it, do it. Pushing it out twice, that should raise eyebrows and prompt questions. Why? What do you need? How can we help? Pushing it out a third time? Before you click send, look at that meeting, will it actually happen by that time? Do people need to know that it’s scheduled to feel safe about what they are doing? All you are producing at this point is occupying space in people’s minds and calendars, you aren’t producing anything. Cancel it, schedule it when it’s needed, free up space and