Mob Progamming: You will be exposed Perhaps the title of this post is a bit misleading. It should probaby be titled, “Mob Progamming: You will be exposed”. That’s exactly what happens to members on a Mob Programming team. The interesting part is that it isn’t all that bad and if you are working on a …
Individuals Individuals are pretty much the smallest chunk of humanity available for doing software development, and probably for a lot of other things too. Individuals are a key part of software development. Regardless of what we disagree about, we can hopefully agree that at some point an individual has to do something, or we end up with no …
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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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 …
I have discovered the origin of Mob Programming. Please look at this historical document:
Several people have asked about how we chose the name “Mob Programming” for our practice. Here is my memory of it: It seems we naturally give names to anything nameable Once we started working using this practice, we found ourselves wanting to call it something. We started calling it different things: Crowd programming, Pair ++, …
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A week ago I did a Coding Dojo demonstration with Llewellyn Falco at a conference, and showed the Mob Programming video. One of the audience members sent me an email to ask a few questions about what we’ve been doing, and I responded with my answers. It seems that others might be wondering about the same …
Some info about our Mob Programming Approach Basic Mob Work Area Most of our work is done sitting together in the group work area. We try to make it as comfortable as possible. There is plenty of room and we can easily have others join us whenever needed. Our work area is configured out of …
Please watch this to see a full day of “Mob Programming”. We work like this pretty much all day, every day, 5 days a week: