Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams

Summary

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.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

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.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - UNDERSTANDING ELASTIC LEADERSHIP

1. Striving toward a Team Leader Manifesto
2. Matching leadership styles to team phases
3. Dealing with bus factors

PART 2 - SURVIVAL MODE

4. Dealing with survival mode

PART 3 - LEARNING MODE

5. Learning to learn
6. Commitment language
7. Growing people

PART 4 - SELF-ORGANIZATION MODE

8. Using clearing meetings to advance self-organization
9. Influence patterns
10. The Line Manager Manifesto

PART 5 - NOTES TO A SOFTWARE TEAM LEADER

11. Feeding back
12. Channel conflict into learning
13. It's probably not a technical problem
14. Review the code
15. Document your air, food, and water
16. Appraisals and agile don't play nicely
17. Leading through learning: the responsibilities of a team leader
18. Introduction to the Core Protocols
19. Change your mind: your product is your team
20. Leadership and the mature team
21. Spread your workload
22. Making your team manage their own work
23. Go see, ask why, show respect
24. Keep developers happy, reap high-quality work
25. Stop doing their work
26. Write code, but not too much
27. Evolving from manager to leader
28. Affecting the pace of change
29. Proximity management
30. Babel Fish
31. You're the lead, not the know-it-all
32. Actions speak louder than words

摘要

彈性領導是一個框架和理念，可以幫助您應對日常和長期的挑戰，並努力創建難以捉摸的自組織團隊。這是關於理解您的領導風格需要根據您發現團隊處於哪個階段而改變的。本書為您提供了一套價值觀、技巧和實踐，以在您的領導角色中使用。

購買印刷版書籍將包括一本免費的電子書（PDF、Kindle和ePub格式），由Manning Publications提供。

關於技術

您的團隊依賴您的指導。您必須調解激烈的辯論。團隊不斷處理問題，而不是以正確的方式做正確的事情。每個人似乎都想正確地做事，但似乎沒有人這樣做。這就是領導者陷入困境的地方。是時候解脫了！彈性領導是一種新穎的方法，可以幫助您根據團隊所處的階段調整領導風格，以便隨著事物的變化保持同步。

關於本書

彈性領導是一本實用的、以經驗為基礎的團隊領導指南。在這本書中，您將發現一套價值觀、技巧和實踐，以引領您的團隊取得成功。首先，您將了解什麼是彈性領導，並探索這個以結果為導向的框架的階段。然後，您將通過故事、軼事和成功領導者提供的建議，以及作者和經驗豐富的團隊領導者Roy Osherove的註解，看到它在實踐中的應用。

內容簡介

• 了解人們為什麼做他們所做的事情


• 有效的指導


• 影響團隊成員和經理


• 來自行業領袖的建議

讀者對象

本書適合有一年或更多團隊工作經驗的領導或團隊成員。

作者簡介

Roy Osherove是位於加利福尼亞州的EMC公司西岸的DevOps流程負責人。他還是《單元測試的藝術》（Manning，2013年）和《企業DevOps》的作者。他在全球范圍內為團隊提供領導、單元測試、測試驅動開發和持續交付自動化的咨詢和培訓。他經常在國際會議上就這些話題和其他話題發表演講。

目錄

第1部分 - 了解彈性領導



1. 努力實現團隊領導宣言


2. 將領導風格與團隊階段相匹配


3. 應對公交因素



第2部分 - 生存模式



4. 應對生存模式



第3部分 - 學習模式



5. 學會學習


6. 承諾語言


7. 培養人才



第4部分 - 自組織模式



8. 使用清理會議推進自組織


9. 影響模式


10. 線管理宣言



第5部分 - 軟件團隊領導的注意事項



11. 提供反饋


12. 將衝突轉化為學習


13. 問題可能不是技術問題


14. 審查代碼


15. 記錄您的空氣、食物和水


16. 評估和敏捷不相容


17. 通過學習領導：團隊領導者的責任


18. 核心協議簡介


19. 改變想法：您的產品就是您的團隊


20. 領導力和成熟的團隊


21. 分擔工作負擔


22. 讓團隊管理自己的工作


23. 去看看，問為什麼，尊重他人


24. 讓開發人員快樂，獲得高質量的工作


25. 停止做他們的工作


26. 寫代碼，但不要太多


27. 從經理發展為領導者


28. 影響變化的速度


29. 接近管理


30. 巴別魚


31. 您是領導，而不是全知全能


32. 行動勝於言辭