It’s easier to rewrite something than to figure out what is going wrong. It’s easier to start from scratch, ignore the history and do it your way. It’s easier to ignore, then engage. The decision to rewrite versus fixing a code problem is always rooted in emotion and not the code. We Can Do ItContinue reading “Choosing between the Rewrite or Fix It”
Author Archives: Greg Thomas
Lead them in the Middle
Your First Team Meeting is critical to getting things underway with either a new team or project. How you start will set the tone for how the project will kick-off and where your team will look to focus their energies. In the beginning, like the song, “Everything Is Awesome” in the beginning, simple because it’s allContinue reading “Lead them in the Middle”
The Leadership Change Goal
If you think you can change your team’s behavior, direction, and course in thirty days and have them executing on that change – you need to reset your goals. Leadership is a long game, the more members on your team, the harder it becomes to implement the change you know that the team needs butContinue reading “The Leadership Change Goal”
Hiring the Right Person for the Wrong Job
Hiring people is the hardest part of any organization’s growth. You have this perfect symbiosis of people working together in your environment, your customers and market share are growing and now you need to add to it. You need to add to it for all the right reasons – they are overworked, you need moreContinue reading “Hiring the Right Person for the Wrong Job”
The Proximity to Success Fallacy
Does the proximity of your team members to one another (i.e., how close they are, if they are remote) determine the success of your project? No. Does our success change if we sit close to each other? No. Does it have any impact on it? Only in our heads. If you were to go backContinue reading “The Proximity to Success Fallacy”
Overcoming the Hiring Problem
Great People = Great Products. And right now, you have that incredible product offering put together by an amazingly talented group of people from here, there and everywhere. The team is executing and delivering on all facets in building the next iteration or branching out into something different. And now your customer base is growingContinue reading “Overcoming the Hiring Problem”
Where CTO/F needs to be in Early Stage Development
In the early stages of a company’s growth, the Founder (assuming they are of a technical acumen) and/or if not CTO (Chief Technology Officer) needs to be focused on Product Delivery (we’ll call them the CTO/F for short). To accomplish this goal, it’s important for the CTO/F to recognize and understand not only what theyContinue reading “Where CTO/F needs to be in Early Stage Development”
Identifying and Overcoming Stagnation in your Team’s Growth
“We used to deliver more when we were smaller” No matter who you are or where you are in the team, this hurts. It hits you hard in the gut and triggers the introspection that forces you to look at the why in how you got to where you are today. In working with softwareContinue reading “Identifying and Overcoming Stagnation in your Team’s Growth”
Automating Team Growth and Development
If you’re leading a team, the growth and development of each member of your team are going to be at the top of that big TODO list you have that lists out everything you want to accomplish with your team. But this doesn’t mean you need to run with all of it. Although it mightContinue reading “Automating Team Growth and Development”
Big. Bad. Meetings.
Meetings get a bad rap for the singular reason that we don’t always get what we want out of them. That’s a big reason and a strong justification for what is wrong with them. I’ve attended meetings in person, via bridge, conference calls, airports, taxis, backywards, McDonalds, restaurants, and on and on (as I’m sureContinue reading “Big. Bad. Meetings.”
