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title: "Elastic Leadership: Growing Self Organizing Teams"
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published: "2016-10-29T07:17:38.561000+00:00"
updated: "2016-10-29T07:17:38.561000+00:00"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Elastic Leadership: Growing Self Organizing Teams: a book recommended on Pipeline Driven by Roy Osherove."
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# Elastic Leadership: Growing Self Organizing Teams

Books

- [![Cover: Elastic Leadership: Growing Self Organizing Teams](https://pipelinedriven.org/img/c/elasticleadershipcover-3e1fbf.png)](https://pipelinedriven.org/agility-devops-related-books/elastic-leadership)

    ## [Elastic Leadership: Growing Self Organizing Teams](https://pipelinedriven.org/agility-devops-related-books/elastic-leadership)

    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 to change based on which phase you discover that your team is in.

    This book provides you with a set of values, techniques, and practices to use in your leadership role.

    [View on Amazon](http://amzn.to/2dWAVB0)

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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).

### 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). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/