--- title: "Meta: articles" url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Meta.md" canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Meta" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Posts on the ideas behind this blog, such as the Elastic Leadership model, team survival versus chaos, Team Leader Manifesto drafts and the ShuHaRi stages." 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/" --- # Meta: articles Posts on the ideas behind this blog, such as the Elastic Leadership model, team survival versus chaos, Team Leader Manifesto drafts and the ShuHaRi stages. HTML: https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Meta · 20 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://www.5whys.com/llms.txt) - [Developing Critical Team Thinking](https://www.5whys.com/articles/developing-critical-team-thinking.md) (2013-02-25): How the effectiveness, novelty and self-direction of critical thinking map onto growing a self-organizing team that keeps experimenting. - [Things to consider when building a new team](https://www.5whys.com/articles/things-to-consider-when-building-a-new-team.md) (2012-12-26): What to look for when building a new software team: experts willing to teach, people who enjoy working together, and people with time to learn and grow. - [Elastic Leadership Team Survival Vs. Team Chaos Vs. Cynefin](https://www.5whys.com/articles/elastic-leadership-team-survival-vs-team-chaos-vs-cynefin.md) (2012-07-30): Why the first phase of Elastic Leadership was renamed from chaos to survival to avoid clashing with Cynefin, and how the three team phases are defined. - [Team Leader Manifesto - Take #4](https://www.5whys.com/articles/team-leader-manifesto-take-4.md) (2012-06-06): Roy Osherove's Team Leader Manifesto in full: great teams are grown, not hired, by continuously growing people's skills to the point of self-organization. - [Team Leader Manifesto - Take #3](https://www.5whys.com/articles/team-leader-manifesto-take-3.md) (2012-06-06): The third draft of the team leader manifesto, which defines a leader's success as the team's growth in self-organization and adds slack time to learn. - [On time, with quality - why is this mostly failing?](https://www.5whys.com/articles/on-time-with-quality-why-is-this-mostly-failing.md) (2012-05-06): Why teams fail to ship on time with quality while stuck in chaos, and why team leaders must remove commitments to make time to learn and practice. - [Different ways to view organizational change](https://www.5whys.com/articles/different-ways-to-view-organizational-change.md) (2012-05-04): A link to Don Gray's post comparing models of organizational change and transition, recommended as a set of design patterns for organizational change. - [The architect as a leader, and other specialists](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-architect-as-a-leader-and-other-specialists.md) (2012-05-01): Why an architect or any specialist on a team is a bottleneck, and should act as a coaching leader who spreads knowledge until they are no longer needed. - [Software Team Leader Manifesto - Take #2](https://www.5whys.com/articles/software-team-leader-manifesto-take-2.md) (2012-02-23): The second draft of the team leader manifesto: adapt leadership style to the team, embrace risk, fear and experimentation, and lead people. - [Don't be afraid to become management](https://www.5whys.com/articles/dont-be-afraid-to-become-management.md) (2011-12-08): A short late-night video on YouTube in which Roy Osherove argues that fears about moving into management mostly come true only if you do it wrong. - [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. - [Five Questions to ask yourself when getting advice about team leadership](https://www.5whys.com/articles/five-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-getting-advice-about-tea.md) (2011-09-13): Questions for testing any team leadership advice against the three team maturity stages, plus bonus questions about the author's hidden assumptions. - [Video: Mistake #1 - Not Understanding Team Maturity](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-mistake-1-not-understanding-team-maturity.md) (2011-07-28): A short video on the first of ten team leader mistakes, failing to recognize the team's maturity stage, plus a note on an Oslo team leader class. - [Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-team-leadership-in-the-age-of-agile.md) (2011-07-08): A link to the InfoQ video of Roy Osherove's QCon London 2011 talk on what team leaders need for agile to succeed and how leadership fits team maturity. - [Video: Elastic Leadership in software - InfoQ interview](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-elastic-leadership-in-software-infoq-interview.md) (2011-04-15): A link to an InfoQ video interview from QCon London 2011 on Elastic Leadership, where the leader moves from dictator to coach as the team matures. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.5whys.com/articles/elastic-leadership.md) (2011-04-04): Roy Osherove defines Elastic Leadership, adapting your leadership style to the team's phase, from chaos to learning to self-leading, and why it is scary. - [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. - [Scrum vs. Kanban attitudes](https://www.5whys.com/articles/scrum-vs-kanban-attitudes.md) (2010-06-13): A link to a post on how Kanban and Scrum differ in attitude and in how they provoke change, with a note that combining the two can work well. - [Interview: Patrick Kua : Agile Coach](https://www.5whys.com/articles/interview-patrick-kua-agile-coach.md) (2010-04-21): A 29-minute audio interview with agile coach Patrick Kua on types of tests, the definition of done and team leader versus team manager. - [The three stages of learning team leadership](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-three-stages-of-learning-team-leadership.md) (2009-09-10): How Shu-Ha-Ri applies to learning team leadership and TDD: start with practices, then learn the principles, and earn the values over time. --- ## 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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