Remember the movie “My Cousin Vinny”? (WARNING: Spoiler alert) Vincent Gambini is an aspiring lawyer fresh out of law school and on his first case. He achieves a tremendous victory and saves his cousin from a certain conviction for a murder he did not commit. I love this little scene where Vinny’s fiancée, Mona Lisa …
The third Mob Programming Conference is happening April 12 & 13 at the Microsoft Center in Burlington, MA. Here are the pertinent links for the conference, and the Eventbrite registraion: Conference Website: Click here to go to the Mob Programming Website Eventbrite Registration: Click here to go to the Mob Programming Eventbrite Page I’m really excited to be …
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The second Mob Programming Conference is happening April 6 & 7 at the Microsoft NERD Center at MIT in Cambridge MA. Here are links to the conference website and Eventbrite: Conference Website Eventbrite Registration I’m really excited to be working with Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Llewellyn Falco to organize this gathering. Learn by Doing Mob Programming is …
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The Mob Programming Book by Kevin Meadows and myself is available from Leanpub. Here is a link: https://leanpub.com/mobprogramming “All the brilliant minds working together on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer” – We call it “Mob Programming”. With dual projectors, one computer, two keyboards, and …
The first Mob Programming Conference is happening May 1 & 2 at the Microsoft NERD Center at MIT in Cambridge MA. Here are links to the conference website and Eventbrite: Conference Website Eventbrite Registration I’m really excited to be working with Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Llewellyn Falco to organize this gathering. Learn by Doing Mob Programming is …
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Are you Mob Programming in your workplace or team? Or perhaps on an Open Source project, study project, or at a user group? I’d like to hear about it. In the last month or so I’ve visited about 10 teams that are using Mob Programming on a regular basis, and over the last year I would …
By Woody Zuill A Book Recommendation: Teaming, by Amy C. Edmondson Amy Edmondson has done a great deal of research and writing on the topic of Teams and Teamwork and how it fits in to the modern world of work. Her book, “Teaming, How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy” brings together …
By Jason Kerney Humans are notoriously bad at multitasking. Development is a complex undertaking that requires true multi-threading of tasks which all have interdependencies. A developer needs to balance architecting a solution, writing code, managing cross-project dependencies, and maintaining previous projects. Circling around actual development are issues of ensuring that requirements are correct, updating documents, …
By Woody Zuill {NOTE: This is a draft of a work in progress. It is likely to change over time as I flesh out the examples given here. It is likely there are spelling, grammar, and other errors throughout. Please read past the mistakes. I’ll try to get things cleaned up over time.] Fading Problems …
What: Learn about Agile and Extreme Programming using a Mob Programming approach, With Woody Zuill. When: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 Where: Tagged offices at 848 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA This one day workshop will allow participants to experience a day of Mob Programming. We will share not only the mechanics of how to work together …
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By Woody Zuill I was invited to present our MobProgramming approach at Oredev 2013 in Malmo, Sweden. It was an exciting and wonderful experience for me (to say the least), and perhaps someday I’ll post about it. Until then, here is a link to a video of the session I presented there about MobProgramming: MobProgramming …
What: Learn about Agile and Extreme Programming using a Mob Programming approach, With Llewellyn Falco and Woody Zuill. When: Saturday, Dec 7, 2013 or Thursday, Dec 12, 2013 Where: San Diego Area (We haven’t chosen the exact location yet…) We are presenting a one day workshop that will allow participants to experience a typical day of …
We have finally hit the big time!!! Our Mob Programming Team has been interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell. We had a lot of fun, and want to give a HUGE thank-you to Carl and Richard: THANK YOU! It was a wonderful experience for us, and we really appreciate the chance to share our …
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Author: Per Jansson A Note From Woody: This is a guest article provided by Per Jansson. It was posted on his blog and he has graciously allowed us to reproduce it here. Here is a link to his blog: http://pichdude.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/get-a-good-start-with-mob-programming/ Thanks Per!!! This is the story about how we in our development team used mob programming …
By Woody Zuill The folks at vNext OC recorded the Mob Programming presentation and session I held at the April 10th 2013 meeting in Newport Beach, California. The video covers the presentation, and the first 20 minutes of the coding dojo part of the session. If you have nothing to do for the next few hours, please …
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We’ve been giving presentations on Mob Programming and doing Mob Programming Dojo sessions whenever we get a chance. Woody Zuill will be up at the vNext OC meeting Newport Beach on April 10th to share our “Whole Team Approach”.
By Woody Zuill What’s the most important “Agile Practice”? : Do Regular Retrospectives. Getting good at retrospectives is well worth the effort. The basic idea is to take a look at how things are going, decide on some thing (or things) to make better, decide on action(s) to take, take the action(s), and then repeat the …
Llewellyn Falco has visited our Mob Programming team many times. I asked Llewellyn if he could write a guest article for us about his experience with Mob Programming, and here it is. Thanks Llewellyn! I have had a different experience. I sat with a team that was happy, joyful even. They were hopeful, energetic and …
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McCarthy Bootcamp This week Jim and Michele McCarthy brought the McCarthy Bootcamp to San Diego (with the help of the amazing Erik Meade, and perhaps a few other local Agilists). This post isn’t about the Bootcamp or the Core Protocol – which are well worth reading about and experiencing. You can learn more about these and …
By Woody Zuill Meetings are great Meetings are great. I’m pretty sure that we would all prefer to have meetings all day if we could. But life isn’t perfect. Not Really Ooops. Did I say Meetings are great? I meant to say meetings are mostly USELESS. Note I said mostly – not all, just mostly. To clarify (so people …