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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Two 2012 posts on the Team Leader Manifesto, the third written draft and the NDC Oslo talk video on growing effective software teams."
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# manifesto: articles

Two 2012 posts on the Team Leader Manifesto, the third written draft and the NDC Oslo talk video on growing effective software teams.

HTML: https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/manifesto · 2 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://www.5whys.com/llms.txt)

- [Video: The Team Leader Manifesto, Growing Effective Teams](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-the-team-leader-manifesto-growing-effective-teams.md) (2012-06-15): The page for Roy Osherove's NDC Oslo 2012 talk on the Software Team Leader Manifesto; the embedded video is gone but a Vimeo link remains.
- [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.


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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/