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# Decision Making: articles

Posts on team decisions, such as handling bad decisions made by the team, getting a decision out of a sleepy meeting, and asking developers for solutions.

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

- [How to deal with bad decisions made by the team](https://www.5whys.com/articles/how-to-deal-with-bad-decisions-made-by-the-team.md) (2009-11-16): How a team lead can steer a self-directing team away from bad technical decisions by asking hard questions, based on Mike Cohn's Succeeding with Agile.
- [How to squeeze a decision out of a sleepy meeting](https://www.5whys.com/articles/how-to-squeeze-a-decision-out-of-a-sleepy-meeting.md) (2009-10-15): A link to Yves Hanoulle's short post on a simple protocol for squeezing a decision out of long, tired meetings that never seem to reach one.
- [Growing developers: Ask for solutions instead of giving them](https://www.5whys.com/articles/growing-developers-ask-for-solutions-instead-of-giving-them.md) (2009-09-18): Why a team leader should ask developers for three possible solutions instead of handing out answers, and what to do when they can't decide or lack skills.
- [How to say NO by saying YES](https://www.5whys.com/articles/how-to-say-no-by-saying-yes-1.md) (2009-09-14): How a visual task board lets a team say no to a manager's urgent request by showing its real cost, letting the manager reprioritize the work themselves.
- [Immediate and delayed satisfaction in software development](https://www.5whys.com/articles/immediate-and-delayed-satisfaction-in-software-development.md) (2009-09-10): Why software teams should not accept slow builds and manual work, and how leads who can't stand delayed satisfaction push for automation and fast releases.


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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/