Book description
Elastic leadership is a framework and philosophy that can help you as you manage day-to-day and long-term challenges and strive to create the elusive self-organizing team. It is about understanding that your leadership needs to change based on which phase you discover that your team is in. This book provides you with a set of values, techniques, and practices to use in your leadership role.
About the Technology
Your team looks to you for guidance. You have to mediate heated debates. The team is constantly putting out fires instead of doing the right things, the right way. Everyone seems to want to do things correctly, but nobody seems to be doing so. This is where leaders get stuck. It's time to get unstuck! Elastic leadership is a novel approach that helps you adapt your leadership style to the phase your team is in, so you can stay in step as things change.
About the Book
Elastic Leadership is a practical, experience-driven guide to team leadership. In it, you'll discover a set of values, techniques, and practices to lead your team to success. First, you'll learn what elastic leadership is and explore the phases of this results-oriented framework. Then, you'll see it in practice through stories, anecdotes, and advice provided by successful leaders in a variety of disciplines, all annotated by author and experienced team leader, Roy Osherove.
What's Inside
- Understanding why people do what they do
- Effective coaching
- Influencing team members and managers
- Advice from industry leaders
About the Reader
This book is for anyone with a year or more of experience working on a team as a lead or team member.
About the Author
Roy Osherove is the DevOps process lead for the West Coast at EMC, based in California. He is also the author of The Art of Unit Testing (Manning, 2013) and Enterprise DevOps. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of leadership, unit testing, test-driven development, and continuous-delivery automation. He frequently speaks at international conferences on these topics and others.
Quotes
A real inspiration. Reading this book made me rethink the way I lead projects.
- Jeroen Benckhuijsen, Group9
Filled with real-life scenarios and analyses by software industry professionals.
- Ashwin Mhatre, Gateway Solutions
Stretch your mind for the betterment of your team with this book.
- Christopher Haupt, Mobirobo Inc.
An all-encompassing guide to scalable leadership.
- Ian de Villiers, Amazon Web Services
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Part 1. Understanding elastic leadership
- Part 2. Survival mode
- Part 3. Learning mode
- Part 4. Self-organization mode
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Part 5. Notes to a software team leader
- Chapter 11. Feeding back
- Chapter 12. Channel conflict into learning
- Chapter 13. It’s probably not a technical problem
- Chapter 14. Review the code
- Chapter 15. Document your air, food, and water
- Chapter 16. Appraisals and agile don’t play nicely
- Chapter 17. Leading through learning: the responsibilities of a team leader
- Chapter 18. Introduction to the Core Protocols
- Chapter 19. Change your mind: your product is your team
- Chapter 20. Leadership and the mature team
- Chapter 21. Spread your workload
- Chapter 22. Making your team manage their own work
- Chapter 23. Go see, ask why, show respect
- Chapter 24. Keep developers happy, reap high-quality work
- Chapter 25. Stop doing their work
- Chapter 26. Write code, but not too much
- Chapter 27. Evolving from manager to leader
- Chapter 28. Affecting the pace of change
- Chapter 29. Proximity management
- Chapter 30. Babel Fish
- Chapter 31. You’re the lead, not the know-it-all
- Chapter 32. Actions speak louder than words
- Index
- List of Figures
Product information
- Title: Elastic Leadership
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2016
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617293085
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