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title: "A view of the books in my bouvet office"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/9/6/a-view-of-the-books-in-my-bouvet-office.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/9/6/a-view-of-the-books-in-my-bouvet-office.html"
published: "2012-09-06T13:43:02"
updated: "2012-09-06T13:43:02"
tags: ["bouvet"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here’s a short video I took reviewing the old and new books in my bouvet shared office. Its interesting to look at, just like watching the rings on a cut down tree. You can tell what things the team is interested in (or…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# A view of the books in my bouvet office

By Roy Osherove September 6, 2012

**Historical article** · Originally published September 6, 2012; technical details may be outdated.

Here’s a short video I took reviewing the old and new books in my bouvet shared office. Its interesting to look at, just like watching the rings on a cut down tree. You can tell what things the team is interested in (or try to be) by looking at its history of book purchases.

[![](https://osherove.com/img/video/yt-iQN0LN8RmXo.jpg)Play videoA small look at roy osherove's bouvet.no office in Oslo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQN0LN8RmXo)

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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).

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### 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/