---
title: "Video: Mistake #1 - Not Understanding Team Maturity"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-mistake-1-not-understanding-team-maturity.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-mistake-1-not-understanding-team-maturity.html"
published: "2011-07-28T18:02:12+00:00"
updated: "2011-07-28T18:07:00.323000+00:00"
tags: ["First Steps during chaos", "Meta", "Video"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I recently posted my slides about ten mistakes team leaders make. I thought I'd take some time for each mistake and do a short video on it. Here's the first one: Watch on YouTube Team Leader Mistakes #1 - Not Understanding Team Maturity…"
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/"
---

# Video: Mistake \#1 - Not Understanding Team Maturity

I recently posted my slides about ten mistakes team leaders make. I thought I'd take some time for each mistake and do a short video on it. Here's the first one:

[![](https://www.5whys.com/img/video/youtube-7mVslT6kmAY.jpg)Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mVslT6kmAY)

Team Leader Mistakes #1 - Not Understanding Team Maturity

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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/