Married to the Mob (programming)
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The document discusses the concept of mob programming, where a team collaborates closely in a shared coding environment, emphasizing continuous improvement, roles rotation, and a culture of kindness and respect. It outlines best practices for when to engage in mob programming, noting its benefits in problem-solving and team dynamics. Resources and examples of successful mob programming teams are also provided to encourage experimentation and cultural evolution in software development.
Married to the Mob (programming)
- 2. hey hi hello derek graham @deejaygraham
- 6. The characters and events depicted in this presentation are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental
- 7. Mob?
- 11. are you XP?
- 12. XP Engineering Practices • Continuous Integration • Pair Programming • Test Driven Development • Simple Design • Refactoring • Collective Code Ownership • Sustainable Pace
- 13. Swarming
- 14. – Our Team “Swarming … is the first time we’ve felt like a genuine team instead of individuals all working for the same manager.”
- 16. –Woody Zuill “All the brilliant people, working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer.”
- 17. Mob = XP++
- 18. –Rachel Davies (Agile Coach) “ Mobbing would be in the XP book (if they'd thought of it)”
- 19. Mob !=
- 20. Mechanics
- 21. •One set of Input Devices (keyboard and mouse) •Everyone can see thecode •Everyone has a role •Roles rotate through the team
- 22. *reconstruction
- 23. Mob Roles
- 25. Navigator Driver
- 28. *reconstruction
- 31. Mob Rule(s)
- 34. – Woody Zuill “We decided for one day to pretend to be kind, considerate and respectful. And then we decided to do it again.”
- 35. –Norm Kerth “Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.”
- 36. if you aren’t learning or contributing, find a better use for your time.
- 37. Driver
- 38. Driver Typist
- 40. Cortana for Code 1.Listen to the mob 2.Translate that into code 3.There is no 3
- 41. Siri for Syntax • Write the Code • Talk about the Code • Rollback? • Patience • Incomplete Understanding
- 43. If you have the keyboard, you can’t have the ideas
- 44. Mob % Typist
- 45. Mob 1.Collaborate & Discuss 2.What is the next step? 3.Talk to the Typist 4.Park other issues
- 46. The team is like an extended brain, it needs to talk out loud to know what it thinks
- 47. Environment
- 51. Rotation
- 52. *reconstruction
- 55. Team work
- 56. When to mob… • Always :) • Green field projects • New work • Hard problems • Code Merges? • Group learning
- 57. When not to… •Sys admin and Dev Ops (pair instead) •Long running tasks •Small problems •JFDI
- 60. Inspect & Adapt
- 61. •Informal Huddle •As often as you need to: •How are we doing? •What is easy? •What is hard?
- 62. Turn up the Good!
- 64. Have you ever had a bug?
- 70. –Llewellyn Falco “For an idea to go from your head into the computer, it MUST go through someoneelse'shands.”
- 71. Finding the right level •Abstractions •Language syntax •Files, line numbers •Key presses
- 72. Resources
- 73. Mob-Positive Teams • Hunter Industries • Industrial Logic • Alaska Airlines • LateRooms.com • pluralsight.com • GDS (gov.uk) • Unruly Media • Blue Fruit • Menlo innovations • …and many more
- 74. • Mobbing - http://mobprogramming.org • Woody Zuill - https://www.industriallogic.com • Chris Lucian - http://www.chrislucian.com/ • mob timer - https://github.com/dillonkearns/mobster • Strong style pairing - https://llewellynfalco.blogspot.co.uk/ • Amy Edmondson - https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-three- pillars-of-a-teaming-culture
- 77. https://github.com/willemlarsen/mobprogrammingrpg
- 78. Problem Solving Bray, R. M., Kerr, N. L., & Atkin, R. S. (1978). "Effects of group size, problem difficulty, and sex on group performance and member reactions." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 1224-1240.
- 79. What can you take away?
- 80. •Experiment and discover what works for you •Expect to evolve •Culture change is hard •Flash Mob? •If nothing else…
- 85. Me • @deejaygraham • [email protected] • deejaygraham.github.io • http://www.nebytes.net • https://www.meetup.com/Agile-North-East/