Mob Programming by Woody Zuill 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.
Join this workshop and experience two days of learning and doing Mob Programming. We cover the mechanics of how to work together as a Mob as well as the techniques that make this form of development so effective.
We’ll 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 its significant benefits for your teams.
Target Audience
Anyone involved in software development, including (but not limited to) testers, product owners, programmers, database experts, deployment experts, managers, and even executives.
Our focus in this workshop is the Mob Programming approach to teamwork, and this workshop is useful to those who will work on a team as well as those who provide support for a team.
Program
Hands-on Exercises, Presentation, Interactive Dialogues, Simulations, Videos.
- Introduction: Mob Programming Introduction, The basics of how it works
- The nature of software development
- Teamwork – a good thing
- Driver/Navigator teamwork Roles and Techniques
- Coding Dojo Demonstration: A simple demo of Mob Programming with volunteers from the participants
- Advanced Mob Programming Concepts – Hands on coding
- Coding Exercise: Working on a Sample Project, learning to work together using a few rules
- Amplified Learning
- How to take advantage of learning opportunities
- Continuing the Coding Exercise: Removing the rules
- Retrospective and review, group discussion of what we’ve learned.
What will you learn
- 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, Designers as part of the team
- Refactoring as a team
- Continuous feedback at all levels of granularity.
