[Introducing] Team Leadership google group

[Roy Osherove]

Hi All.
I believe the next wave of issues that we will need to start solving is that
of software leadership.
We may all believe in the stuff that agile, tdd and the like bring to the
company, but we often have problems following through on these, since we
can't find a way to drive the people in our teams to "get" these things.
Team leadership is the essential skill that binds together the will do be
better and the ability to drive a team to be better, and to eventually truly
become a self directing group of people.

I think most software leads suck at people skills, at driving their team and
getting things ready to be more agil. and I think that's one of the main
reasons some agile adoptions fail so badly.
But I have not found a place to get anwers on leading teams at the people
level, or even the basic skill level that would target exactly this role.

I started http://5whys.com for that reason, but I believe that many of us
will benefit from a more open and honest dialog about managing people, the
problems we deal with, and ways to solve them.
I invite you to join the group at
http://groups.google.com/group/leading-teams

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Thanks,

Roy Osherove
www.TypeMock.com - Unit Testing, Plain Smart

Author of "The Art Of Unit Testing" (http://ArtOfUnitTesting.com )
A blog for team leaders: http://5Whys.com
my .NET blog: http://www.ISerializable.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RoyOsherove
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[Ken Egozi]

I'm in.

your talk on the subject at idcc was great

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[Alon Kadury]

I was hoping for something like this after the best lecture in IDCC.
Roi, any good books in the subject you can recommend?

Alon

[Roy Osherove]

"Behind closed doors"

but I also suggest you ask this on the list!

[Ken Egozi]

which list?

just kiddin'

Shana Tova everyone :)