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title: "Slides: Team Leadership In the Age of Agile"
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published: "2011-03-19T04:32:55+00:00"
updated: "2011-03-19T05:23:14.057000+00:00"
tags: ["Conference", "First Steps during chaos", "Growing People", "Slides", "qcon"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Slides from a QCon London 2011 talk on the three maturity stages of a software team and how a team leader adjusts leadership style to each one."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Slides: Team Leadership In the Age of Agile

Here are the slides I've used during my latest talk at [QCON london](http://qconlondon.com/) 2011 :

In this talk I explore the three maturity stages of a software team, and how a team leader can adjust their leadership type based on the current phase the team is in. I also explore common mistakes and techniques team leaders can take to make sure their team gets on the road to craftsmanship and maturity in software development.

 Some of the topics covered include stuff I've written about before:

- [The three maturity stages](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-3-maturity-stages-of-a-software-team-and-how-scrum-fails.html) 
- [What are you going to do about it?](https://www.5whys.com/articles/what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it.html)
- [My team keeps breaking their promises](https://www.5whys.com/articles/my-team-keeps-breaking-their-promises-what-can-i-do.html)
- [Steps to take on a chaotic team](https://www.5whys.com/articles/category/First+Steps+during+chaos)

**[Team leadership in the age of Agile - Roy Osherove](http://www.slideshare.net/royosherove/team-leadership-in-the-age-of-agile-roy-osherove)**

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## Read next

- [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.html): 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.
- [What to do if some people in the team just don't want to take a task?](https://www.5whys.com/articles/what-to-do-if-some-people-in-the-team-just-dont-want-to-take.html): How a Scrum team leader should respond when team members won't pick tasks in sprint planning, with different tactics for each team maturity stage.
- [The Fear Of Failure And What To Do About It](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-fear-of-failure-and-what-to-do-about-it.html): Using a Milton Glaser video on the fear of failure, a look at why team leaders must take personal risks and how timed experiments can lower them.


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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.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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