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All 166 articles, newest first. Written between 2009 and 2020; most of it still applies.
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- Anti Patterns 23
- Audio 5
- Book 4
- Conference 7
- Courses 8
- Critical Thinking 3
- Decision Making 5
- Distributed 1
- First Steps during chaos 30
- From the mailing list 2
- Growing People 23
- Guest Post 12
- Ha 6
- Influence 7
- Lean 1
- Learning Phase 25
- Link Love 5
- manifesto 2
- Meta 20
- Pair Programming 2
- people patterns 18
- Poll 1
- Ri 8
- Self Improvement 11
- Self-Leading Phase 11
- Shu 14
- Slides 1
- stoos 1
- Video 21
2020
2019
- InfoQ Book Q&A on Elastic Leadership
- The Elastic Leadership Model in a picture
- Johanna Rothman Interview - Agile, a Decade Later
2017
2015
- Elastic Leadership Book: The re-publishing of "Notes to a Software Team Leader"
- Team Bus Factors: How to Reduce Them and How to Prevent Them
- A Realistic HackerRank Developer Interview Question List
- When I Want to Give Up
2014
- Dangers of Survival Mode
- Ask Royo #1 - Team Leadership and Influence Edition
- A Value System for Code Reviews, and How to Scale Them for a Large Project
- Scrum Master 2.0: A Scrum Master is Not
- 3 Reasons to stop solving other people's problems for them
- Signs you might be in survival mode
2013
- Technical Disobedience
- Definition: Survival Mode
- Two Techniques to Avoid the Bus Factor In your Teams: Push and Pull
- What's your Position, Velocity, and Acceleration? by Neal Tibrewala
- Audio Book - Notes to a Software Team Leader, Now Available
- Be a Book Reviewer for 'Notes to a Software Team Leader'
- Audio: Preface–Notes to a Software Team Leader
- Developing Critical Team Thinking
- Elastic Leadership in Devops Survival Mode
- Feeling Stupid is Highly Recommended
- Two Day Leadership Workshop–London April 11-12
- 12 Lessons Learned for a New Team Lead
- Video: The Coaching Architect
- Elastic, Agile, Adaptive Leadership Workshop, January 31 2013, Oslo
2012
- Things to consider when building a new team
- Video (Hebrew): On Time, With Quality? Yeah Right.
- Video: Lejla Giske on Listening Modes and Techniques
- Consulting and Leadership Courses in Scandinavia
- Elastic Leadership Team Survival Vs. Team Chaos Vs. Cynefin
- Assume you are wrong
- Upcoming leadership 1 day courses in sweden
- Submit your story about a team leader you had - good or bad
- New chapter: "Learning" in the book "From chaos to self organization"
- Leadership and management talk videos from NDC Oslo
- Video: The Team Leader Manifesto, Growing Effective Teams
- Free for Elastic Leadership Training in June/July
- Team Leader Manifesto - Take #4
- Team Leader Manifesto - Take #3
- Should you grow even a short-term consultant in your team?
- Elastic Leadership course in Amsterdam - July
- On time, with quality - why is this mostly failing?
- Middle Management or puppet management?
- If you're looking for a QA to automate your tests, you've started to fail
- Different ways to view organizational change
- Chapter four - commitment language - is online
- What should a good code review look and feel like?
- Do new startup leaders need to grow their teams?
- Grow your "feature teams" into just "teams"
- You're not self organizing if you have a go-to architect
- The architect as a leader, and other specialists
- Joining Forces with other leaders to make change happen
- Contribute a note to my upcoming book - Notes to a software team leader
- Lead Better Bucharest Edition - This Month
- New Book: Notes to a software team leader
- Software Team Leader Manifesto - Take #2
- Stoos Gathering - Initial Thoughts
2011
- How to be an effective code coach
- You Can't Fire Everyone
- Don't be afraid to become management
- A Manifesto For Software Team Leaders - Take 1
- Stavanger Norway Elastic Leadership Course
- Ten Things Distributed Team Leaders Should Do
- Three reasons not to have your own private office
- Technical Anti Patterns Arising from Social Inadequacy
- Five Questions to ask yourself when getting advice about team leadership
- Go see, ask why, show respect
- Appraisals and Agile Don't Play Nicely
- Making your team manage their own work
- One Day Software Team Leader Skills Class - Lund, Sweden
- A week in Stockholm - Open for consulting or training
- Distributed Team Evasion Tactic - Away or Offline
- Spread your workload
- Change your mind: your product is your team
- The Chaos Addiction
- Video: How to manage a person who is always late to a standup meeting
- Video: Mistake #1 - Not Understanding Team Maturity
- Oslo Lead Better Workshop - August 8-9 2011
- Video: Ten Mistakes Software Team Leaders Make
- Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile
- The Fear Of Failure And What To Do About It
- Video: The Mistake at the heart of Agile - Michael Feathers, NDC 2011
- Burst your team's bubble - stop protecting them from the surrounding organization
- The Clean Coder
- Yelling at team members
- London Team Leader Course this July
- What to do if some people in the team just don't want to take a task?
- A good leader won't need to ask
- Video: Elastic Leadership in software - InfoQ interview
- 12 Behavior Anti Patterns You Will Face As a Software Team Leader
- Lead Better - Skills for software team leads, Course next week in Oslo
- Elastic Leadership
- Slides: Team Leadership In the Age of Agile
- What are you going to do about it?
2010
- 3 Quotes about Leadership we should listen to
- How to annoy your customer with usability problems
- Choice
- Scrum vs. Kanban attitudes
- Exclude a team member – and you’re an idiot
- Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams
- Leadership and the mature team
- The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them
- The Bus Factor - Why your ‘best’ developer is your biggest problem
- My team keeps breaking their promises. What can I do?
- Kevlin Henney – 3 things every programmer should know
- Interview: Patrick Kua : Agile Coach
- Interview: James Bach – The role of the tester
- Move-Around kata for team leaders
- my worst team leaders
2009
- Confessions of a First Time Manager
- Creating Team Trust
- How to plan and influence change at your company
- Why XP’s influence is more effective than Scrum
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Other blogs on management and leadership
- How to influence others
- How to deal with bad decisions made by the team
- Be more approachable in five minutes
- Video - Pair Programming with a Guitar
- Dev Anti Pattern: Unworkable Machine
- Do Not Fear Confrontation
- Check-in: sharing emotions in an effective way
- The hidden leadership lessons we can learn from music conductors
- A Possible Job Description: Team Leader
- Video: Influence Strategies
- The Core Protocols Introduction
- Leadership Conference coming up
- How to squeeze a decision out of a sleepy meeting
- A simple way to know you're missing some leadership skills
- How to measure programmer productivity using TDD Katas
- Leading Through Learning: The Responsibilities of a Team Leader
- A bunch of (old) audio interviews on management and agile methodologies
- Be Productive and Go Mouseless
- Be Productive and Stop Using XML
- Why managing a software team can be more effective than "regular" management
- Manifesto for Continuous Improvement
- Growing developers: Ask for solutions instead of giving them
- 5 ways to grow great developers instead of desperately looking for them
- Announcing the Team Leadership Google Group
- 9 Articles from Joel On software for Tech Leads
- IDCC talk: Beautiful teams and code leaders is online
- Poll: Would you join a team leadership forum on this site?
- How to say NO by saying YES
- Document Your Air, Food, and Water
- Immediate and delayed satisfaction in software development
- The three stages of learning team leadership
- One-Liners a new team lead should and shouldn't read
- Generating Internal vs. commercial value
- Spend at least 50% of your time with your team
- Is face to face pairing better?
- Step #4 - Start doing code reviews – Seriously
- How to find hidden problems in your project before it’s too late
- Making Impossible Decisions Without Panicking
- Daily Standup Meetings - Introduction and 5 useful tips
- 4 ways to discover a stuck team member, and what you can do about it
- If you don’t own your team, Someone else will
- Call for content – what do new team leads need to know on the first day?
- Don’t despair in the face of nitpickers
- Step #2 – Use a big visible board with post it notes
- The first five Whys
- Step #1 – Claim Your Territory, Own your team
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