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Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams by [Roy Osherove]

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Is your team agile and self organizing?
What is your role as a leader?

Team Leadership is the missing link that connects all the buzzwords you hear these days about unit testing, TDD, Continuous Integration, Scrum, XP and others, to the real world where actual people have to learn, implement, and mainly, believe and push for this stuff to happen.

This book is meant for software team leaders, architects and anyone with a leadership role in the software business.

Read advice from real team leaders, consultants and everyday gurus of management: Johanna Rothman, Uncle Bob Martin, Dan North, Kevlin Henney, Jurgen Appelo, Patrick Kua and many others. Each with their own little story and reason to say just one thing that matters the most to them about leading teams.

See what it'll feel like if you do things wrong, and what you can do about things that might go wrong, before they happen.

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March 8 2014
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EP03O5Y
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Team Agile Publishing (March 8 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 790 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 829993320X

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Kevlin Henney
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I'm an independent consultant, international speaker, writer and trainer. I live in Bristol and online.
My software development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. As well as contributing to a number of projects, I've been involved in (far too) many committees (for conferences, publications and standards, but as yet I've not been on a committee for committees).
My fiction writing tends to the short side — and occasionally to the dark side — spanning a number of genres.
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Roy Osherove
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Roy Osherove consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing and test-driven development, and trains team leaders how to lead better at 5whys.com. He tweets at @RoyOsherove and has many videos about unit testing at ArtOfUnitTesting.com. His testing blog is at http://osherove.com/blog.
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Marcus Young

There is some decent leadership advice in this book. ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 2, 2015

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There is some decent leadership advice in this book. However I don't think it was worth the $40 CDN I paid. Especially when half the book is written by other authors. It was also littered with a ridiculous amount of grammatical and editing errors.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 20, 2016

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Great book for development team members, especially team leads and managers

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Brought for my boss

Bas Vodde

A bit disppointing

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I had great hopes for Notes to a Software Team Leader, but unfortunately ended up being disappointed by this book and the advise it gives. Sure, it has useful tips, but then there are things (e.g. commitment language) that I just don't agree with. Also, the book is thinner than you think as the second half is actually filled with articles or blog posts. So, there wasn't a lot of meat in the book, unfortunately.

The book is split into two parts: The book and the articles or blog posts. Half of the book is the actual book (only about 100 pages) and the other half is articles or blog posts collected by the author. The articles cover a very wide range of topics. Part #1 of the book consists of 4 sections: 1) Elastic Leadership, 2) The Survival Phase, 3) The Learning Phase, and 4) The Self-Organizing Phase.

The Elastic Leadership section sets the tone and structure of the book by stating that leadership is situational and that it depends on the state of the team. The experience of the author is that teams go through 3 different phases, unsurprisingly: 1) Survival, 2) Learning, 3) Self-organizing, each having a section with one or more chapters related to the leaders role when the team is in that phase. The survival phase is when there is panic and no time to learn. The learning phase is when the team gradually learns to solve their own problems and the self-organizing phase is where the team is able to solve problems without your help. The author state that maybe 5% of the teams are in the self-organizing phase and the majority in the survival.

He then goes on to explain the kind of leadership style you ought to use for each of these phases. For the survival phase the main leadership style is command control, for learning phase it is more a coaching style, and for self-organizing more a facilitation style (not black/white). Each chapter explains a couple of techniques and ideas for teams in that phase. Though, the majority of the book (almost 40%) focuses on the learning phase.

Roy has some great ideas and some good stories to share, yet I was uncomfortable with some of his advise and the tone of the book. I've experienced a lot of teams, but the 3 phases do not really match my experience. Neither does the style link well to the describes phases. If you have a team in survival then there might not be time for learning, but if you can get them goal and purpose then I don't believe you must survive by applying command control management. But I was most uncomfortable with the commitment language. Adding precision in language when there is often no precision in the task doesn't feel right to me. And most organizations don't need more focus on commitments, but more focus on delivery. Anyways.

All in all, the book is not bad, yet I wouldn't recommend it. It is small and doesn't contain a huge amount of new information. I'd probably do 3 stars for the book itself, but will reduce a start because of the random collection of articles towards the end of the book. 2 stars.

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Matthew Martin

I wouldn't have bought it if I was more aware of the 2nd half of the book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 30, 2015

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The initial advice sounded to me like a management style that is contingently applicable. If you happen to have a particular set of employees and a particular management at a particular company, then this advice would be useful.

The one star is for filling the 2nd half of the book with dreck. The collected writings are blog post quality, thematically jump all over the place and some had a advertisement feel to them.

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Wes Bailey

Pretty Good for First Time Leaders

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2014

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This is a pretty good book for first time software leaders to get an introduction to everything they will need to learn from a mentor. The book alone will give you the ideas and concepts with a few sort of real world examples. What you will need to make the experience complete is a mentor to help you understand the nuance that a book just cannot give. The contributions at the end of the book are really valuable and I like how they tie to the overall themes presented in the book. Overall a good read that makes you think what you can do better.

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