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    Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams
    Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams
    Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams
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    Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams

    By Roy Osherove

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    Summary

    Elastic leadership is a framework and philosophy that can help you as you manage day-to-day and long-term challenges and strive to create the elusive self-organizing team. It is about understanding that your leadership needs to change based on which phase you discover that your team is in. This book provides you with a set of values, techniques, and practices to use in your leadership role.

    Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

    About the Technology

    Your team looks to you for guidance. You have to mediate heated debates. The team is constantly putting out fires instead of doing the right things, the right way. Everyone seems to want to do things correctly, but nobody seems to be doing so. This is where leaders get stuck. It's time to get unstuck! Elastic leadership is a novel approach that helps you adapt your leadership style to the phase your team is in, so you can stay in step as things change.

    About the Book

    Elastic Leadership is a practical, experience-driven guide to team leadership. In it, you'll discover a set of values, techniques, and practices to lead your team to success. First, you'll learn what elastic leadership is and explore the phases of this results-oriented framework. Then, you'll see it in practice through stories, anecdotes, and advice provided by successful leaders in a variety of disciplines, all annotated by author and experienced team leader, Roy Osherove.

    What's Inside

    • Understanding why people do what they do
    • Effective coaching
    • Influencing team members and managers
    • Advice from industry leaders

    About the Reader

    This book is for anyone with a year or more of experience working on a team as a lead or team member.

    About the Author

    Roy Osherove is the DevOps process lead for the West Coast at EMC, based in California. He is also the author of The Art of Unit Testing (Manning, 2013) and Enterprise DevOps. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of leadership, unit testing, test-driven development, and continuous-delivery automation. He frequently speaks at international conferences on these topics and others.

    Table of Contents

      PART 1 - UNDERSTANDING ELASTIC LEADERSHIP
    1. Striving toward a Team Leader Manifesto
    2. Matching leadership styles to team phases
    3. Dealing with bus factors
      4. PART 2 - SURVIVAL MODE
    4. Dealing with survival mode
      5. PART 3 - LEARNING MODE
    5. Learning to learn
    6. Commitment language
    7. Growing people
      8. PART 4 - SELF-ORGANIZATION MODE
    8. Using clearing meetings to advance self-organization
    9. Influence patterns
    10. The Line Manager Manifesto
      11. PART 5 - NOTES TO A SOFTWARE TEAM LEADER
    11. Feeding back
    12. Channel conflict into learning
    13. It's probably not a technical problem
    14. Review the code
    15. Document your air, food, and water
    16. Appraisals and agile don't play nicely
    17. Leading through learning: the responsibilities of a team leader
    18. Introduction to the Core Protocols
    19. Change your mind: your product is your team
    20. Leadership and the mature team
    21. Spread your workload
    22. Making your team manage their own work
    23. Go see, ask why, show respect
    24. Keep developers happy, reap high-quality work
    25. Stop doing their work
    26. Write code, but not too much
    27. Evolving from manager to leader
    28. Affecting the pace of change
    29. Proximity management
    30. Babel Fish
    31. You're the lead, not the know-it-all
    32. Actions speak louder than words
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherManning
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9781638351085
    Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams
    Author

    Roy Osherove

    Roy Osherove is an internationally-recognized expert in unit testing and agile software methodology. Still an active coder, he consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing and test-driven development. He is also the author of Elastic Leadership (Manning 2016). Roy’s blog is at ArtOfUnitTesting.com.

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