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Who do you report to?
2 days ago
The Best Ticketing System Ever
3 days ago
The Only Time I was an Early Adopter
4 days ago
The Correlation in Stress to Work
5 days ago
What AI Gives Zero Thought to
6 days ago
AI talking to Humans talking to AI
7 days ago
This is How I do it
7 days ago
The Ownership in Your Work
1 week ago
The Leaders You Need
1 week ago
I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
1 day ago
I’ve always had a simple view of who I report to, irrespective of the project and the work I’m doing. If I’m leading a team, I report to the members of the team and manage status updates above. You lead your team; you manage their results. The reasoning is simple – your team is what matters most; they are the ones putting in the time, they are the ones investing extra effort, they are the ones who need your help. Your manager should be leading you: what do you need, and how can I help? Same pattern and practice – …
2 days ago
The Best Ticketing System Ever
Greg Thomas
I’m not sure if Post-it notes on a board have ever been beaten. But I do know that it did not transfer to Remote work correctly – virtual Post-it notes just never took off – so now we have boards on boards of doing things in different ways and hoping they get done. The satisfaction of finishing the Post-it, crumpling it up, and throwing it away can not be beat. It’s a therapeutic finish, and if you get the crumpled piece of paper into the garbage can on the first throw, it’s that much better a feeling. I don’t think …
3 days ago
The Only Time I was an Early Adopter
Greg Thomas
When DVDs hit the scene, the quality was unparalleled. We got an early DVD player, and it was pretty cool – not too big, the size of a VCR, but decent. The first time we rented a DVD (because that is what you did), it had one small scratch, and we couldn’t watch the movie. (Also, how pro walking into a rental store and skipping over the cassettes and going straight to the DVDs). Over the years, performance against scratches and nicks got better, and to get that better performance, you had to buy a new machine with a better …
1 week ago
I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
I’ve been running a number of interviews lately, and I’m amazed at how everyone has some type of answer to a question. And sadly, in most cases they are wrong; they are bad answers, and if I’m feeling curious that day, I might keep poking and prodding to see how much I can make your AI hallucinate during the interview. The best candidate I interviewed over the past week asked to use a pencil and paper to draw out the problem and answered a few questions with “I don’t know”. Everything else was solid; he didn’t know it all. No …
1 week ago
Your Best Team Culture
Your team culture doesn’t start and end with a presentation or workshop – it starts the next day. It grows and improves each and every other day from there – as long as you hold true to what you want to accomplish. As soon as you fall back on old habits and practices, the culture falls apart because “If they don’t have to do it, why should I?” Some teams grow an organic culture, and this works; most need a direction, a path, a discussion to move forward. Balance your discussions; weeks and weeks of discussion with no action is …
2 weeks ago
A Blistering Pace
That’s how fast it feels you need to go each and every day in order to rise above the fray. But the pace, the consistent pace, the work always being delivered – that’s what matters more. Getting there is good; getting there with value, with scenarios and work thought out – much better. Find your new race and set a better pace then you did before. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.