When you think of the work your team does, what metrics are important to you? How often they are in the office? How many bugs originate from code they are writing? What their overall contribution to releases are? What their bug return rate from QA is? How many unit tests they create with their code?Continue reading “How do you Measure your Team?”
Author Archives: Greg Thomas
Collaboration’s Biggest Challenge
A few years ago, SLACK was the messaging darling, enabling quick, simplified messaging with minimal setup and management for administrators. In addition, it boasted a robust API/Integration framework which let it do what so many collaboration applications to date had struggled with – get inside everything you work with. Or rather, you get inside SLACKContinue reading “Collaboration’s Biggest Challenge”
Finding your Non-Leadership Style
Leadership Styles are a tricky conversation primarily because no one wants to be pigeonholed being “that” type of Leader (when no one cares for having “that” type of Leader in their organization). But it gets worse, as you start to work with other leaders (maybe you have a group of Team Leads you are mentoring)Continue reading “Finding your Non-Leadership Style”
Bad Renovations in Software
Recently, while doing some work in my basement, I had to remove a vertical bulkhead. Actually, I didn’t have to remove but wanted to see what was behind it after staring at it for so many years. When I opened it up, it was empty, there was nothing of use behind it – no vents,Continue reading “Bad Renovations in Software”
Conference Season is Upon Us
We’re in the thick of it now – Conference aka “Drinking from the Firehose” Season is upon us. From now until October, the conversation around the water cooler and SLACK channel’s are going to be focused on one thing. What conference are you going to this year? And if you didn’t get your first pickContinue reading “Conference Season is Upon Us”
Choosing between the Rewrite or Fix It
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”
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”
