Agile coaches activate the teams they coach to take up their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance. How? One way is to offer a framework, language and metaphor they can use to chart their own path to high performance.

Most of us work in software project teams, but we rarely use metrics to identify strengths and weaknesses, set and track goals, or evaluate strategies. This video gives examples of specific metrics and techniques to help you identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of your software engineers and to help make the team a more cohesive and productive. If you manage or lead teams of software developers and engineers, and want to make sure that your focus is on success, you can’t afford to miss this entertaining and …

This video discusses the perverse incentives that hinder the ability to reach the purpose for which they were created for, outlining the need to focus on the system built not its solutions.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Learning-and-Perverse-Incentives

In this video, Roy Osherove covers one of the common mistakes by software team leaders: not understanding team maturity.

In software development, developers, architects and managers often like to think of themselves as rational and clear thinking, not prone to the chaotic and contradictory thinking they see at home, in politics or in the world of business. Although it is possible to get further from the truth than this, it is not likely. Those involved in software development are just as human as people in other walks of life, and are just as subject to the cognitive biases and effects that skew, truncate and bypass clear thinking. The effects …