mob programming: a whole team approach
DESCRIPTION
Teamwork is an important component of agile software development. We all agree that teamwork must be nurtured and grown in our organizations. But what does it mean to work as a team in the world of software development? How can we encourage our “teams” to truly work “as a team?” Woody Zuill and his team at Hunter Industries have found tremendous benefits following the whole team approach they call Mob Programming. Everyone works together at the same time, in the same space, on the same problem, and at the computer—every day, eight hours a day! How can this possibly work? Woody explores the whole team concept and shows the specific practices his team uses for communication, collaboration, coding, and accelerated learning in their daily software development work. Learn how Woody and his team discovered this highly productive practice, see what it looks like, and take home some ideas you can use in to your software development work.TRANSCRIPT
BT2 Session 6/6/2013 10:15 AM
"Mob Programming: A Whole Team Approach"
Presented by:
Woody Zuill Hunter Industries
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Woody Zuill Hunter Industries
An agile coach for the development team at Hunter Industries, Woody Zuill creates and supports software for internal company departments using a wide range of technologies, programming languages, and platforms. For the past thirteen years Woody has worked as an agile coach and developer in both large and small environments, training more than twenty teams and more than 100 developers in agile practices. Woody has been programming computers for twenty-nine years and believes that code must be simple, clean, testable, and maintainable so we can respond to change while quickly delivering working software. He has a passion for bringing unmaintainable code back into a manageable, healthy state.
Mob ProgrammingA Whole Team Approach
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Illustration © 2012 ‐ Andrea Zuill
Woody Zuill : [email protected]
Mob ProgrammingAll the brilliant minds working on
hin the same spaceat the same timethe same thing
All the brilliant minds working on
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Just like a real mob.on the same computer…
This is what it looks like from the front
Gordon uses a laser pointer as he navigates.
We use a typical looking Story/Task board
How we “discovered”Mob Programming
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How can we be productive with 5 people at one computer?
Productivity
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Driver/NavigatorIn this style of programming theprogramming the Navigators discuss ideas, makes decisions, and communicates them verbally to
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ythe Driver who translates and types them into written code.
We rotate the Driver every 15 minutes
Meetings
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Continuous Learning
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Exposed!
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Ergonomics, Health, and Sanity
Let’s take care of
lourselves
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Try it
A few ideasyou can try
yourself
you can try
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mobprogramming.org
You shall not pass!… until I move over for you – sorry for
the inconvenience.@woodyzuill
Illustration © 2012 ‐ Andrea Zuill
Woody Zuill : [email protected]