What about Ego? Today during the Mob Programming session at Agile 2013(#Agile2013) we were asked the question “Does the Mob have to deal with issues related to Ego?” The Egotistic Developer In my experiences in previous jobs, egotism came into play when a developer or manager attempted to push a personal agenda related to a …
Does the mob really use no estimates? In the time that we have done development as a mob we have done no estimates for management. We value our time as a mob highly and spending that time making guesses about how long it would take us to do something rather than using that time to …
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The General Idea As a mob we put a lot of effort into increasing our productivity and capabilities. In other companies I have worked, the improvement of capability seemed to be a second class citizen to “getting work done”. When looking at the number of repetitive tasks a typical dev team does you may find …
Mob Programming may seem to be counter intuitive at first, however it quickly becomes evident that the ability to transfer knowledge to your whole team at the same time quickly outweighs the perceived loss in efficiency that you would normally otherwise think would result in a period of time all of your developers are sitting at one keyboard. Analogy …