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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A two part guest series on Jim McCarthy's Core Protocols, starting with where they came from in 1995 and continuing with the Check-In protocol."
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# TheCoreProtocols: tagged articles

A two part guest series on Jim McCarthy's Core Protocols, starting with where they came from in 1995 and continuing with the Check-In protocol.

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

- [Check-in: sharing emotions in an effective way](https://www.5whys.com/articles/check-in-sharing-emotions-in-an-effective-way.md) (2009-10-23): Yves Hanoulle explains the Check-In protocol from The Core Protocols, using mad, glad, sad and afraid to share emotions at work and at home.
- [The Core Protocols Introduction](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-core-protocols-introduction.md) (2009-10-16): Yves Hanoulle introduces The Core Protocols, team rules Jim and Michele McCarthy distilled from their team-building workshops, and invites you to try 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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