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# Ri: articles

Posts for the Ri stage of ShuHaRi, going beyond the rules, on mature teams, continuous improvement, delayed satisfaction and weighing leadership advice.

HTML: https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/Ri · 8 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://www.5whys.com/llms.txt)

- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Why XP’s influence is more effective than Scrum](https://www.5whys.com/articles/why-xps-influence-is-more-effective-than-scrum.md) (2009-12-09): Why XP practices like TDD, pair programming and continuous integration change team behavior better than Scrum alone, seen through six forces of influence.
- [Manifesto for Continuous Improvement](https://www.5whys.com/articles/manifesto-for-continuous-improvement.md) (2009-09-24): A photo shared by Andrew of 21apps, plus a one-line take on continuous improvement: when asked whether you are happy with things, the answer is always no.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Generating Internal vs. commercial value](https://www.5whys.com/articles/generating-internal-vs-commercial-value.md) (2009-09-10): On Alistair Cockburn's internal versus commercial value in lean development, and why refactoring, faster builds and teaching people have internal value.


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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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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/