Pay-What-You-Can: Mob Programming with Woody Zuill

All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same place, and on the same computer.

Mob Programming is a cost-effective, collaborative and fun way to get work done together. It's a whole-team approach to development, where coding, designing, testing, and working with the "customer" (partner, Product Owner, User, etc.) is all done as a team.

Participants in this workshop experience a typical day of Mob Programming while learning the mechanics of how to work together as a Mob and the techniques that make this form of development so effective.

Learn how a mob performs sample project work, including user stories, prioritization, test-driven development, refactoring, and retrospectives.

Designed and facilitated by Mob Programming pioneer Woody Zuill, this workshop provides a hands-on education in the art of mobbing and it's significant benefits for your teams.

Learning Goals

• How 5+ people can be effective working on just one thing
• Heuristics for team size
• Guidelines for successful collaboration
• Handling competing solutions and ideas to a coding problem
• Encouraging politeness and kindness of team members
• Reducing or eliminating harmful conflicts
• Mobbing Mechanics
• Tools for team coding
• Workspace setup
• How to "Amplify Learning" and take advantage of continual learning opportunities
• "Real-time" and continuous Retrospectives to reflect, tune, adjust
• The theory of why Mob Programming is effective.
• Test-Driven Development (TDD) as a team
• Working with Product Owners, Business Experts, Testers as part of the team
• Refactoring as a team
• Continuous feedback at all levels of granularity

Instruction Approch

Hands-on Exercises, Interactive Dialogues, Simulations, Videos

Agenda

• What Is Mob Programming & The basics of how it works
• First Exercise: A Code Dojo to Introduce Basic Concepts
• Driver/Navigator teamwork Roles and Techniques
• Second Exercise: A sample project
• The Importance of Retrospectives
• Advanced Mob Programming Concepts
• Third Exercise: Expanding on the Sample Project
• Amplified Learning - How to take advantage of learning opportunities
• Resolving Conflict
• Retrospective and review