Book

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

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“They should take those gut feelings they have and apply them toward making a better work environment, product and process.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Self-Organizing Teams

“For a self-organizing team, having each team member realize that they're not stuck in a situation, but can always choose to do something about it, is one of those turnaround moments.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Self-Organizing Teams

“Use commitment language in daily standup meetings, in one-on-one meetings and everywhere promises are made.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language

“For commitment language to work for integrity to exist, you have to insist that people commit only to things in their own control.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language

“I can't promise to fix a specific set of bugs by a specific date. Bugs often aren't as innocent and easy to fix as they may seem; my commitment can easily be broken.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language, Bug Fixes

“Effective code reviews are not done via a tool or remotely — there done when your sitting side by side with the person or pair who wrote the code.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Code Reviews

“This problem of hiding important information is prevalent in our industry because we technical folk like to believe in miracles.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Commitment Language

“Feedback needs purpose and it should enable purpose”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Tech Leadership, Feeding Back

“You're being paid to keep taking the team to the next level of performance and professionalism.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Tech Leadership

“For some, being in a constant state of survival mode and fixing things that should have already been fixed is within there comfort zone.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Fire Fighting, survival mode

“It's almost as good as pairing: each code check-in gets personally reviewed locally or via remote call. This provides learning because it involves a conversation.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Dealing With Bus Factors

“One thing is certain: the way we work with our teams must improve. We must become better adjusted to the current reality and needs of our team, business and ourselves.”

— Roy Osherove, amazon.com

Tagged: Elastic Leadership, Teams, Retro