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# Conference: articles

Talks and conference posts from NDC Oslo, QCon London and ACCU, including the Team Leader Manifesto and Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams, 2009 to 2012.

HTML: https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Conference · 7 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://www.5whys.com/llms.txt)

- [Video: The Team Leader Manifesto, Growing Effective Teams](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-the-team-leader-manifesto-growing-effective-teams.md) (2012-06-15): The page for Roy Osherove's NDC Oslo 2012 talk on the Software Team Leader Manifesto; the embedded video is gone but a Vimeo link remains.
- [A Manifesto For Software Team Leaders - Take 1](https://www.5whys.com/articles/a-manifesto-for-software-team-leaders-take-1.md) (2011-12-08): The first draft of a manifesto for software team leaders, a list of leadership values open for reader comments, written ahead of the Stoos summit.
- [Video: The Mistake at the heart of Agile - Michael Feathers, NDC 2011](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-the-mistake-at-the-heart-of-agile-michael-feathers-ndc.md) (2011-06-17): A note about a Michael Feathers NDC 2011 talk on the mistake at the heart of agile, whose video is gone, tied to getting teams out of comfort zones.
- [Slides: Team Leadership In the Age of Agile](https://www.5whys.com/articles/slides-team-leadership-in-the-age-of-agile.md) (2011-03-19): Slides from a QCon London 2011 talk on the three maturity stages of a software team and how a team leader adjusts leadership style to each one.
- [Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-ndash-code-leaders-and-beautiful-teams.md) (2010-05-24): A post about a QCon London 2010 talk on code leaders and beautiful teams, focused on the chaotic first stage, with a link to the InfoQ recording.
- [Kevlin Henney – 3 things every programmer should know](https://www.5whys.com/articles/kevlin-henney-ndash-3-things-every-programmer-should-know.md) (2010-05-08): A 20-minute audio interview recorded at ACCU 2010 in which Kevlin Henney, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, names three essentials.
- [Leadership Conference coming up](https://www.5whys.com/articles/leadership-conference-coming-up.md) (2009-10-16): Roy Osherove announces plans for a team leadership conference, likely in the UK in late January, and asks readers to vote on a name for it in a poll.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/