Hyper Teams

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, …

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Mob Programming – Your Way

Nimble Thoughts by Dexter Baga What is Mob Programming? “Mob Programming” is simply a name we coined to describe/define what we do in our daily development tasks that allows us to be agile. We are a “Mob” since the entire team are always together, in the same room, walking together to meet a customer, making …

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Mob Programming: What about Ego?

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 …

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Happiness – A Guest Article by Llewellyn Falco

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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Jim McCarthy Visits The Mob

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 …

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Team, Team, Team, Team, Team – I even love saying the word: Team.

You ever watch The IT Crowd? There is a nice little skit in an early episode where the boss [Denholm] fires a whole floor of workers who can’t work as a team, and then he prepares to fire the security team if they can’t work as a team. Here is a quote from Denholm just after …

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