Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams

by Roy Osherove

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“There are no experts. There is only us.

Do one thing every day that scares you. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

People don’t quit their jobs. They quit their managers.

Assemble the team and ask a simple question: “Imagine it is six months from now, and our project has failed completely. Why did it fail?”