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title: "Introducing 5Whys.com"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/9/6/introducing-5whyscom.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/9/6/introducing-5whyscom.html"
published: "2009-09-06T02:32:29"
updated: "2009-09-06T02:32:29"
tags: ["Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I created 5Whys because… well – here’s why . This blog will remain about TDD and other things, but 5Whys.com will be about a focused gateway to developers who want to be better, and team leads who want to be better. And…"
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/"
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# Introducing 5Whys.com

By Roy Osherove September 6, 2009 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 6, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

I created [5Whys](http://5whys.com/) because… well – [here’s why](http://5whys.com/blog/the-first-five-whys.html).

This blog will remain about TDD and other things, but 5Whys.com will be about a focused gateway to developers who want to be better, and team leads who want to be better.

And I’ll ask you one more thing: [what would you tell a newly minted team lead on his first day](http://5whys.com/blog/call-for-content-ndash-what-do-new-team-leads-to-know-on-the.html), that they could not find in any book?

## More in Agile

[All posts in Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

- Sep 28, 2009

    ### [Unit Test Definition 2.0](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/9/28/unit-test-definition-20.html)

- Sep 16, 2009

    ### [Announcing the Team Leadership Google Group](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/9/16/announcing-the-team-leadership-google-group.html)

- Aug 31, 2009

    ### [My Videos](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/8/31/my-videos.html)

- Aug 26, 2009

    ### [TDD Master Class Day # 3 – “What I learned today”](https://osherove.com/blog/2009/8/26/tdd-master-class-day-3-what-i-learned-today.html)


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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).

### Social

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### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### 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/