---
title: "Beautiful Teams and Code Leaders - QCON London 2010"
url: "https://osherove.com/videos/2010/5/27/beautiful-teams-and-code-leaders-qcon-london-2010.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/videos/2010/5/27/beautiful-teams-and-code-leaders-qcon-london-2010.html"
published: "2010-05-26T21:28:43"
updated: "2010-05-26T21:28:43"
tags: ["Leadership", "QCON"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here’s the video of a talk about team leadership and beautiful teams I gave at QCON London this year. You can download the slides for this presentation here . This talk is mainly about the first stage (out of the three…"
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/"
---

# Beautiful Teams and Code Leaders - QCON London 2010

By Roy Osherove May 26, 2010 In [Leadership](https://osherove.com/videos/category/leadership), [QCON](https://osherove.com/videos/category/qcon)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 26, 2010; technical details may be outdated.

Here’s the video of a talk about team leadership and beautiful teams I gave at QCON London this year. You [can download the slides for this presentation here](http://5whys.com/storage/Code%20Leaders.pdf).

This talk is mainly about the first stage (out of [the three team stages](http://5whys.com/blog/the-3-maturity-stages-of-a-software-team-and-how-scrum-fails.html)) – where the team lead takes charge of guiding and coaching the team.

note: the original video for this presentation can be found at: [http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Code-Leaders-Beautiful-Teams](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Code-Leaders-Beautiful-Teams)

InfoQCodeLeadersandBeautifulTeams.flv

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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.
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- [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.
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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/