--- title: "Guest Post: articles" url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Guest%2BPost.md" canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Guest+Post" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Guest articles for team leaders by Johanna Rothman, Mike Burrows, Cory Foy, Oren Ellenbogen and others on trust, appraisals and self-managing teams." usage: "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/" --- # Guest Post: articles Guest articles for team leaders by Johanna Rothman, Mike Burrows, Cory Foy, Oren Ellenbogen and others on trust, appraisals and self-managing teams. HTML: https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Guest+Post · 12 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://www.5whys.com/llms.txt) - [12 Lessons Learned for a New Team Lead](https://www.5whys.com/articles/12-lessons-learned-for-a-new-team-lead.md) (2013-02-02): Guest post by Oren Ellenbogen with 12 lessons for a new team lead, from writing down daily decisions and handling cynicism to making others shine. - [Go see, ask why, show respect](https://www.5whys.com/articles/go-see-ask-why-show-respect.md) (2011-09-13): Guest post by Horia Sluşanschi on showing a team respect through Gemba Walks, probing questions and joint problem-solving on the key constraint. - [Appraisals and Agile Don't Play Nicely](https://www.5whys.com/articles/appraisals-and-agile-dont-play-nicely.md) (2011-09-05): Gary Reynolds argues that individual performance appraisals clash with agile teamwork and self-organizing teams, and suggests continuous feedback instead. - [Making your team manage their own work](https://www.5whys.com/articles/making-your-team-manage-their-own-work.md) (2011-09-02): Lior Friedman explains how a team leader can stop being the task dispatcher and teach the team to divide its own work using a visible task board. - [Spread your workload](https://www.5whys.com/articles/spread-your-workload.md) (2011-08-27): Guest post by John Hill on why team leads who give boring tasks to their reliable people burn them out, and why rotating such work keeps things fair. - [Change your mind: your product is your team](https://www.5whys.com/articles/change-your-mind-your-product-is-your-team.md) (2011-08-13): José Ramón Díaz argues that a new team leader or project manager must shift focus from product to team, since the product is only as good as the team. - [Leadership and the mature team](https://www.5whys.com/articles/leadership-and-the-mature-team.md) (2010-05-18): Mike Burrows responds to the three maturity stages, arguing self-organization goes beyond self-management and mature teams still need leadership. - [Creating Team Trust](https://www.5whys.com/articles/creating-team-trust.md) (2009-12-13): Johanna Rothman explains how a team lead builds team trust, starting with yourself: deliver what you promise, stay consistent, and negotiate. - [Check-in: sharing emotions in an effective way](https://www.5whys.com/articles/check-in-sharing-emotions-in-an-effective-way.md) (2009-10-23): Yves Hanoulle explains the Check-In protocol from The Core Protocols, using mad, glad, sad and afraid to share emotions at work and at home. - [A Possible Job Description: Team Leader](https://www.5whys.com/articles/a-possible-job-description-team-leader.md) (2009-10-16): Kevin Stevens drafts an honest job description for a software team leader: mentor juniors, choose tools wisely, ship with integrity and care for the code. - [Leading Through Learning: The Responsibilities of a Team Leader](https://www.5whys.com/articles/leading-through-learning-the-responsibilities-of-a-team-lead.md) (2009-09-30): Cory Foy argues that the core responsibility of a team leader is growing people, creating learning opportunities with the team as a safety net. - [Document Your Air, Food, and Water](https://www.5whys.com/articles/document-your-air-food-and-water.md) (2009-09-14): Travis Illig on documenting a team's air, food and water: a lightweight team FAQ on source control, builds and tools that helps new members get going. --- ## 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). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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