--- title: "Elastic Team Leadership Class in Oslo - August 2011" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2011/8/2/elastic-team-leadership-class-in-oslo-august-2011.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2011/8/2/elastic-team-leadership-class-in-oslo-august-2011.html" published: "2011-08-02T08:31:02" updated: "2011-08-02T08:31:02" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I'm holding a two day Elastic Team Leadership class in Oslo next week - (right before my 3 day TDD course) This class is about everything that Agile methodologies do not teach you Have you ever come across these…" 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/" --- # Elastic Team Leadership Class in Oslo - August 2011 By Roy Osherove August 2, 2011 **Historical article** · Originally published August 2, 2011; technical details may be outdated. I'm [holding a two day Elastic Team Leadership class in Oslo next week](http://put.no/kurskalenderoversikt.aspx?id=938475) \- (right before my 3 day TDD course) ## This class is about everything that Agile methodologies **do not** teach you Have you ever come across these situations? - You try to convince your team that a specific practice is a good idea, but no one really adopts it, and you don’t know what to do about it. - You are afraid of losing friendships just because you’ve become manager to the same people you’ve worked with as a team member up until now. - Your team doesn’t have time to do anything but putting out fires and you feel helpless about it. - You have a problematic team member and you feel like you’ve tried everything to solve this behavior and failed. - You are being expected to perform impossible feats with impossible deadlines, and can’t do anything to stop it. - You think that your team will never be able to be one of those “extreme programming” teams you keep writing about. - You wonder “if only I had better people in my team I’d…” --- ### VIDEO: ### I recently gave a talk on Team Leadership in the age of Agile: ### [Here's the video.](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Team-Leadership-in-the-Age-of-Internet) --- **You are not alone** in these thoughts. We’ve all been there. A lucky few of us had good mentors to teach us what to do in these situations, but most of us just try our best and hope for miracles. Keep our heads down and pray nothing bad happens until the next person comes along. In this course you’ll learn the basic trade secrets for managers and coaches - how to lead teams to greatness, with a twist - this course is especially designed for _software team leaders_ - and deals with specific people issues in this highly technical world. Hopefully, by the end of this course you’ll feel not only empowered to change things for the better, but you’ll also be equipped with a set of tools and techniques to help you think through and overcome tough people issues and challenges during your time as a team leader. --- ## Based on my experiences and my blog at [http://5whys.com](http://5whys.com/) --- ****Prerequisites :**** One year’s experience developing software using any language ******Course Outline****** ## **Day 1 – Elastic Leadership Principles** **_Skills being developed:_** - Understanding [the three phases of team maturity](http://5whys.com/blog/the-3-maturity-stages-of-a-software-team-and-how-scrum-fails.html) - The [chaos-command phase](http://5whys.com/blog/category/first-steps-during-chaos) - Dealing with [impossible tasks, management conditions and people](http://5whys.com/blog/12-behavior-anti-patterns-you-will-face-as-a-software-team-l.html) - **Exercises** - The [Learning-commanding coach phase](http://5whys.com/blog/category/learning-phase) - Managing current work with [task boards and kanban boards](http://5whys.com/blog/step-2-use-a-big-visible-board-with-post-it-notes.html) - Using [Delegation as a growth tool](http://5whys.com/blog/what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it.html) ## **Day 2 – Influence and Team Growing** **_Skills being developed:_** - The [Self Leading-Coach phase](http://5whys.com/blog/category/self-leading-phase) - Influencing [the six forces that change people’s behavior](http://5whys.com/blog/how-to-plan-and-influence-change-at-your-company.html) - **Exercises** - Understanding and approaching [the five dysfunctions of teams](http://5whys.com/blog/the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team.html) --- ## 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 - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### 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). 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