---
title: "Do Not Fear Confrontation"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/do-not-fear-confrontation.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/do-not-fear-confrontation.html"
published: "2009-10-24T01:04:01+00:00"
updated: "2009-10-24T01:05:35.147000+00:00"
tags: ["First Steps during chaos", "Video"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A short video in which Roy Osherove urges software team leads not to be afraid of confrontation, with a link to watch it on YouTube."
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/"
---

# Do Not Fear Confrontation

hope the sound wasn't too weak...

[![](https://www.5whys.com/img/video/youtube-eqaYju7EU9s.jpg)Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqaYju7EU9s)

Team Leads: Do Not Fear Confrontation

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- [Video: Mistake #1 - Not Understanding Team Maturity](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-mistake-1-not-understanding-team-maturity.html): 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: How to manage a person who is always late to a standup meeting](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-how-to-manage-a-person-who-is-always-late-to-a-standup.html): A YouTube video answering how to handle a team member who is always late to the daily standup, with a different approach for each team maturity stage.


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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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### Contact

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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/