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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Roundups of recommended reading for tech leads, with Joel on Software articles, The Clean Coder, a first time manager's blog and other leadership blogs."
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# Link Love: articles

Roundups of recommended reading for tech leads, with Joel on Software articles, The Clean Coder, a first time manager's blog and other leadership blogs.

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

- [The Clean Coder](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-clean-coder.md) (2011-06-17): A recommendation of Robert C. Martin's book The Clean Coder, to which Roy Osherove contributed a section on the language of commitment.
- [3 Quotes about Leadership we should listen to](https://www.5whys.com/articles/3-quotes-about-leadership-we-should-listen-to.md) (2010-07-18): Three leadership quotes shared on Twitter, from Christopher Columbus on courage, Henry Ford on faster horses and Peter Drucker on efficiency.
- [Confessions of a First Time Manager](https://www.5whys.com/articles/confessions-of-a-first-time-manager.md) (2009-12-14): A link to Tim Barcz's post on devlicio.us, in which a newly appointed manager of a large group of people shares his advice for first-time managers.
- [Other blogs on management and leadership](https://www.5whys.com/articles/other-blogs-on-management-and-leadership.md) (2009-12-01): A short list of recommended blogs and podcasts on software management and leadership, including Rands in Repose, Noop, Scott Berkun and Manager Tools.
- [9 Articles from Joel On software for Tech Leads](https://www.5whys.com/articles/9-articles-from-joel-on-software-for-tech-leads.md) (2009-09-15): Nine Joel on Software articles for tech leads, on task switching, three management methods and evidence based scheduling, and why Joel is worth reading.


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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/