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title: "Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-team-leadership-in-the-age-of-agile.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-team-leadership-in-the-age-of-agile.html"
published: "2011-07-08T22:06:01.207000+00:00"
updated: "2011-07-08T22:07:39.088000+00:00"
tags: ["Anti Patterns", "Meta", "Video"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A link to the InfoQ video of Roy Osherove's QCon London 2011 talk on what team leaders need for agile to succeed and how leadership fits 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: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

during QCon 2011 in London, I gave a talk about the new qualities that team leaders need to make agile succeed. It's a very small fraction of what I cover and coach [during my upcoming course.](http://londonleadership.eventbrite.com/)

> **[See the full video here](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Team-Leadership-in-the-Age-of-Internet)**

some of the things I cover include top mistakes that team leaders do with teams. most of these are closely related to [elastic leadership principles](https://www.5whys.com/articles/elastic-leadership.html) - changing the leadership type based on the team's current maturity.

## Read next

- [Don't be afraid to become management](https://www.5whys.com/articles/dont-be-afraid-to-become-management.html): A short late-night video on YouTube in which Roy Osherove argues that fears about moving into management mostly come true only if you do it wrong.
- [Video: Ten Mistakes Software Team Leaders Make](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-ten-mistakes-software-team-leaders-make.html): Video and slides of a SkillsMatter talk on ten mistakes software team leaders make, from ignoring team maturity to fear of delegation and placating.
- [Video: Elastic Leadership in software - InfoQ interview](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-elastic-leadership-in-software-infoq-interview.html): A link to an InfoQ video interview from QCon London 2011 on Elastic Leadership, where the leader moves from dictator to coach as the team matures.


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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/