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Interesting Questions

•Why can’t I convince my team to do TDD?

•Why can’t we get over “putting fires” all the time?

•What am I supposed to do as a lead exactly?

•Why can’t I seem to hire all those people I read about in agile books?

•What am I supposed to do with that bad apple in the team?

•Am I going to lose my friends?

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Does this apply to you?

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Are you a Leader?

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If You are a Bottleneck,

You are a Leader

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#IWishMyTeamScrum master, architect, DB dude,

FrontEnd Dev, Tester..

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I Wish My Team…did more unit testing,

made it in time to standup meeting in the morning,

would have more time to do things right. . .

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Great Teams are Grown, not Hired

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What is your role as a leader?

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#IWishMyTeamYour role is to make yourself

unneeded.

To remove yourself as a bottleneck.

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Grow the team to solve their own

problems without you.

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#IWishMyTeamBy growing others to not need you,

you will always be wanted,

appreciated and highly valuable

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If only I had a better team

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“Management, done right, is a

tough job”“That’s why you get paid more”

“Many managers like to take the money, but not do all the hard parts”

Leading yourself and others -- Gerald M Weinberg

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How Do You Grow Your Team?

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How do we grow ourselves?

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Steady Growth (plateau)

Learning Learning

Gerald M. Weinberg – “becoming a technical

leader”

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Fast Growth

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#IWishMyTeamRavines before Fast Growth

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#IWishMyTeamRavines before Fast Growth

Vim curve

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TIME

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How do I know which mode we’re

in?

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Survival

We feel pressured to decrease estimates, and we are already late on

many tasks.

The sentence “we don’t have time for that” is

spoken a lot.

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LearningAs a leader, I am constantly requested by the team to

solve arguments, problems, political and technical

questions

Or, the team is silent without requesting help, yet

going down a road that deteriorates the situation.

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Leadership Styles

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#IWishMyTeamTalk to the team about survival, learning andself

organization

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The Survivaladdiction

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#IWishMyTeamHow do we lose quality?Part #1

1.Dilemma: Write tests, or get it done?

2.Answer – No time! fix the fire, get it done!

3.Feeling == good

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#IWishMyTeamONE WEEK LATER1.Dilemma: Write

tests, or get it done?

2.What did we do last time? How did it feel?

3.Answer – Felt good to ship. Let’s do it again!

4.Feeling == good

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#IWishMyTeamONE MONTH LATEROUR CODE SUCKS.

WE HAVE TO do a REWRITE!!

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#IWishMyTeamWe need to get out of

survival mode

because we want to have time to learn

because we want to grow our team to solve

their own problems

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How do you break a survival addiction?

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#IWishMyTeamYou take risks and remove some

future commitments

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Problem Solving Ability Phases

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Challenge

Prepare team for delegation

“What are you going to do about it?”

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Change your leadership to fit

Learn some people techniques

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A short song?

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Elastic Leadership•roy@osherove.com

•Leadership skills to succeed in an agile world

•(Also in non agile world)

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This is a test line

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It looks like you’re doing just fine

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It’s time for a song of mine

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Please deploy tonight

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Slide that card over

•And move it to ‘done’

•Tell me it’s all good , and that,

•That the program will run

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I have an important meeting•So I must go away

•It’s back to the old days, david

•Please compile and pray , david

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But please deploy tonight

•Please deploy tonight

•We’re already so late david

•It will be alright

•Justr please deploy tonight

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Deployment did not work david

•I’m angry as hell

•I know you’ve been doing this all night

•Try this morning as well

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What do you mean ‘you’re tired’ ?

•Aren’t you proud?

•You’re gonna be a hero david

•Just deploy to that cloud, david

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But please deploy tonight

•Please deploy tonight

•We’re already so late david

•It will be alright

•Justr please deploy tonight

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Book:Notes To a

Software Team Leader

Thank youWant a course?

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Thank You + Q + A!

• Contact:

• Email: Roy@osherove.com

• Twitter: @RoyOsherove

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• Books:

• Gerald M. Weinberg - Managing Teams Congruently

• Johanna Rothman - Behind Closed Doors

• Influencer - The power to change anything

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Convince Others by Knowing

Behavior ForcesAll Stages

#IWishMyTeam“For each behavior, The world is

perfectly designed for that behavior to

happen” “Influencer – The power to change anything”

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•PersonalMotivation

Ability

•SocialMotivation

Ability

•EnvironmentalMotivation

•Ability