Team Leader Manifesto

The Team Leader Manifesto was written in the open on this blog, one take at a time, between December 2011 and June 2012.

The last take starts with We believe: great teams are grown, not hired.

Each take below shows how the wording changed, and the NDC Oslo talk explains the ideas behind it.

Team Leader Manifesto - Take #4 June 7, 2012
Roy Osherove's Team Leader Manifesto in full: great teams are grown, not hired, by continuously growing people's skills to the point of self-organization.
Team Leader Manifesto - Take #3 June 6, 2012
The third draft of the team leader manifesto, which defines a leader's success as the team's growth in self-organization and adds slack time to learn.
Software Team Leader Manifesto - Take #2 February 23, 2012
The second draft of the team leader manifesto: adapt leadership style to the team, embrace risk, fear and experimentation, and lead people.
A Manifesto For Software Team Leaders - Take 1 December 8, 2011
The first draft of a manifesto for software team leaders, a list of leadership values open for reader comments, written ahead of the Stoos summit.
Video: The Team Leader Manifesto, Growing Effective Teams June 15, 2012
The page for Roy Osherove's NDC Oslo 2012 talk on the Software Team Leader Manifesto; the embedded video is gone but a Vimeo link remains.
Manifesto for Continuous Improvement September 24, 2009
A photo shared by Andrew of 21apps, plus a one-line take on continuous improvement: when asked whether you are happy with things, the answer is always no.