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Growing Self-Organizing Teams

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Notes to a Software Team Leader

By: Roy Osherove
Narrated by: Gord Edlund
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Is your team agile and self-organizing?

What is your role as a leader?

Team leadership is the missing link that connects all the buzzwords you hear these days about unit testing, TDD, continuous integration, scrum, XP, and others to the real world where actual people have to learn, implement, and mainly, believe and push for this stuff to happen.

This audiobook is meant for software team leaders, architects, and anyone with a leadership role in the software business. Hear advice from real team leaders, consultants, and everyday gurus of management: Johanna Rothman, Uncle Bob Martin, Dan North, Kevlin Henney, Jurgen Appelo, Patrick Kua, and many others, each with their own little story and reason to say just one thing that matters the most to them about leading teams.

See what it'll feel like if you do things wrong, and what you can do about things that might go wrong, before they happen.

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This was a pretty good, quick read, but it seemed a bit dated or for team leads who have been under a rock for the last 10 years and are still doing top-down waterfall development. It also assumed that the manager knows more than the engineers on the team, which has not been the case for any team I’ve worked on. The short essays at the end were good.

A bit dated

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This book has some interesting ideas for leading a technical team, though it often seems to assume that the tech lead knows how to do the jobs of everyone on the team.

I guess that might be true at some companies if they only do web sites with some middleware and a backing DB and that's it. But in my part of the software industry that's never been the case. It kind of feels as though this is advice from a 33 year old at a startup to the 26 year olds new leads at startups.

Aside from that, I'm grateful that he put in the time to assemble these ideas into a digestible length book, and I'd still recommend it.

some not bad advice

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Found it very inspiring for looking at getting into the software industry as a lead.

Very informative

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