General mobbing stuff
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …