Blog

December 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Your Team Needs to Ship

Not your customer, not your manager, not you, but your team, needs to ship. They need to see their work get out there. They need to see people using it in their hands. They need to hear the pain of users. They need to understand what people are seeing and how they are using. More than anything, they need that achievement, no matter if they crossed the finish the line at a gingerly pace or whether it was a mad dash to cross over, they need to have that feeling that they accomplished something and got it into a place

December 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

Inspirational Leadership

In a time of everyone being remote, you can still inspire. It’s not as easy, but it can be done. The last however many years you’ve been leading have all been on site, with your team completely beside you, but now, no longer the case, you are separated and not always by choice. On the latest episode of Remotely Prepared we talk about this important issue especially as we head into a new year. Take a listen.

December 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

What Makes you Good…

Is the ability to see your own mistakes. And then taking the action to do something about them. But the hard part is the first step. (Overheard while listening to the course material available here).

December 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

Prep for Launch

Whatever you have coming up in the week, take a look at what it is and plan it out for the week. But we don’t want to do that, because the prep is hard. There is a reason why prepared meals are so popular, because they do the hard work and all we have to do is the assembly. Once you know what you’re doing, the assembly is easy.

December 12, 2020

Greg Thomas

Deliver Trust and Honesty

Your releases, your successful releases will always, always be wrapped into those two behaviours. Look back on the releases that went well and think back to all the activities you undertook and you will see they are rooted in these two behaviours. You might not have to think about them when starting a release (great), and if you do, that’s okay too. But know without either/or you have a long hill to climb.