Submit your story about a team leader you had - good or bad

Have something really important to say to software team leaders out there? Why not publish it in my upcmoing book?  It could be anything, as long as there is a PERSONAL story in it.

Outline why you liked/disliked that team leader's behavior. Explain how things could have been better, or worse.

If it's about you, and a lesson you've learned about being a team leader - tell it, so others can learn from your experience!

New chapter: "Learning" in the book "From chaos to self organization"

I just added a new chapter to "From Chaos to Self Organization" . You don't know that book? You would have known it by it's previous name "Elastic Leadership" , and before that it was part of "Notes to a software team leader". 

Now I've split them into two different books, because I wanted each one to be "purely" about either notes from other team leaders, or about my specific framework for growing effective teams.

NOTE: if you are an existing owner of "notes to a software team leader" you should have gotten a FREE code by email a few weeks ago for the split book which was then called "elastic leadership". this code should still work with the book even though its name has changed.

Here's the link to a bundle for both books together:

Leadership and management talk videos from NDC Oslo

There weren't many of those, but here are some talks from NDC Oslo 2012 that you might find interesting:

• The Software Team Leader Manifesto (me)
• Panel - The State of Agile and the road ahead
• What does Self-Organizing Team Really Mean? (Esther Derby)
• The Surprising Science behind Agile Leadership (Jonathan Rasmussen)
• Embracing Uncertainty (Dan North)

Video: The Team Leader Manifesto, Growing Effective Teams

Here is my talk from NDCOslo 2012, two weeks ago. It details my current view and thoughts about the role of the team leader, and the manifesto is a good way to capture that.

Roy Osherove - The Software Team Leader Manifesto from NDCOslo on Vimeo.

Free for Elastic Leadership Training in June/July

With all the work going on with our move to norway this august, I managed to not book anything for end of june, and all through july.

If anyone wants me to come over and bring some TDD sense, or leadership techniques to your team leaders and teams,please ping me.