team leader - testcon...title team leader author royo created date 10/29/2018 4:11:04 pm
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Elastic Leadership
Roy Osherove
For Testers
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5whys.com
@RoyOsherove
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Understand
Influence
Forces
Take
Initiative
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Elastic Leadership Model
Survival
Learning
Self Organizing
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Problem Solving Ability Phases
No time to learn and
practice
There is time to learn and
practice - and it is utilized
for learning
The team can solve its
own problems
Survival
Learning
SelfOrganizing
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Leadership Strategy
Create time for learning!
Challenge and teach people
to solve their own problems
Facilitate goals and watch
out for phase changes
Survival
Learning
Self Organizing
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Leadership Tactics
Command & Control
Coach / Dictator
Facilitator
Survival
Learning
Self Organizing
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Are you a leader?
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If You are a Bottleneck,
You are (potentially) a Leader
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What is your role as a leader?
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Your leader role is to make yourself
unneeded.
To remove yourself as a bottleneck.
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Grow the team around you
to solve their own problems
without you.
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By growing others you will always
have a job
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Why grow people?
• Remove the risk – bus factor
• More time to do the things you want
• The team is more effective (project is more effective)
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If only I had a better
team
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Great Teams are
Grown, not Hired
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A Team of Leaders
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How Do You Grow Your Team?
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Leadership, done right, is a tough job
• That’s why you get paid more
• Many leaders like to take the money, but not do all
the hard parts
• (Paraphrasing Gerry Weinberg in “Managing Teams Congruently”)
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How do we grow ourselves?
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Learning Learning
• Steady Growth (plateau)
Gerald M. Weinberg – “becoming a technical leader”
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Fast Growth
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Ravines before Fast Growth
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Randomness adds noise
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To grow the team, we must first
realize we can do this ourselves.
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Growing the team *is* our Ravine.
Our risk. Our Challenge.
Our Growth.
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TIME
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Problem Solving Ability Phases
Survival
Learning
Self Organizing
Elastic Leadership
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5whys.com/manifesto
As potential leaders, we believe
• Great teams are grown, not hired.
• The goal of a leader is to continuously grow the skills of
the people around them to the point of self organization.
• Happier teams make happier customers and employers.
And so we must continuously:
Challenge ourselves and the people around us
Instead of keeping everyone in their comfort zones
Adapt our leadership style
Instead of one-size-fits-all leadership
Increase participation in human interaction
At least as much as we do with machines
Manifesto
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