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# Ha: articles

Posts for the Ha stage of ShuHaRi, where a team leader adapts the rules, on team maturity, bad team decisions, growing developers and pair programming.

HTML: https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Ha · 6 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://www.5whys.com/llms.txt)

- [The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-3-maturity-stages-of-a-software-team-and-how-scrum-fails.md) (2010-05-17): The chaotic, mid-life and mature stages of a software team, the leadership each one needs, from dictator to coach, and why Scrum Masters miss them.
- [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.
- [5 ways to grow great developers instead of desperately looking for them](https://www.5whys.com/articles/5-ways-to-grow-great-developers-instead-of-desperately-looki.md) (2009-09-16): Five ways a software team leader can grow existing developers instead of hunting for super developers, from homework and comfort zones to code reviews.
- [One-Liners a new team lead should and shouldn't read](https://www.5whys.com/articles/one-liners-a-new-team-lead-should-and-shouldnt-read.md) (2009-09-10): Roy Osherove's favorite and least favorite lines from Alistair Cockburn's advice to a new team lead, and why being the abstraction layer only goes so far.
- [Is face to face pairing better?](https://www.5whys.com/articles/is-face-to-face-pairing-better.md) (2009-09-09): A look at face to face screen pairing, with Brian Marick's reasons it beats side by side pair programming and Roy Osherove's doubts about the style.
- [If you don’t own your team, Someone else will](https://www.5whys.com/articles/if-you-dont-own-your-team-someone-else-will.md) (2009-09-06): Why a software team leader must take ownership of the team's boundaries and shield it from outside interference before the team can become self-directing.


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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/