Notes to a Software Team Leader by Roy Osherove

Notes to a Software Team Leader by Roy Osherove

Are you an architect? Scrum Master? team leader? project manager? If you are any of these, you will find that leadership, done right, is a very tough job. This book deals with the hard parts. Not with tools, but with people. Here is the manifesto that drives this book: For us as team leaders, the goal and the way we measure our work is the overall growth in skills of self-organization and self-maintenance in each member of our team and the team as a whole. To that end: We accept that the team's needs from us change continuously based on their skills for handling the current reality of work, so we embrace a continuously changing leadership style over a one-style-fits-all leadership approach. We believe in challenging ourselves and our teams to always get better, so: * We create slack time for the team to learn and be challenged. * We embrace taking risks for our team over staying safe. * We embrace fear and discomfort while learning new skills over keeping people within their comfort zone. * We embrace experimentation as a constant practice over maintaining the status quo: * With people * With tools * With processes * With the environment * We believe our core practice is leading people, not wielding machines, so: * We embrace spending more time with our team than in meetings. * We embrace treating software problems as people problems. * We learn people skills and communication techniques. About the notes The second part of this book allows a peek into the minds of some of the best leaders, consultants, and managers as they give advice to a new team leader. Hear from Johanna Rothman, Kevlin Henney, Dan North, Uncle Bob Martin, and many others about the one thing they would like to teach you if you ever become a team leader, Scrum Master, project manager, or architect.

At 5whys.com, Roy Osherove consults and trains teams all over the world in the gentle art of unit testing and test-driven development, as well as teaching team leaders how to lead more effectively. He may be found on Twitter as @RoyOsherove and at ArtOfUnitTesting.com, where he has a number of videos regarding unit testing. http://osherove.com/blog is his testing blog.

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ISBN 13	9788299933209
ISBN 10	829993320X
Title	Notes to a Software Team Leader
Author	Roy Osherove
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Team Agile Publishing
Year published	2013-08-30
Number of pages	236
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.