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Sticky mob programming

This is an excerpt from and my contribution to the experience reports section of Mob Programming - A Whole Team Approach by Woody Zuill and Kevin Meadows. If you want to start mob programming, but don't quite know how, I can highly recommend getting the book! In 2015 I fulfilled

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The second family

This is a translation of my Agila Sverige 2014 lightning talk "Den andra familjen". I was recently asked by Magine TV to give it again in English at an internal conference dedicated to company culture. For a recording of the original talk in Swedish, look no further. At

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A journeyman's photographic guide to mob programming

During my journeyman travels, I've been increasingly asked to facilitate and participate in mob programming sessions. This has resulted in a growing collection of pictures and recently it struck me that they could be put to good use. There are certainly plenty of check lists and written guides on how

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Weapons of mass satisfaction

This is a retrospective format that I tried out when facilitating a sprint retrospective at Auctionet during my recent journeyman tour visit there. The overarching goal of this retrospective format is to highlight mostly positive things while still leaving some room for identifying things that can be improved. The end

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Journeyman: Auctionet

Before becoming an official part of Auctionet, there was a development team known as Barsoom. I've known the team for several years now, even before Kim joined it in 2012. But since before that they've been working one way or the other with Ruby and with online auctions. My visit

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Journeyman: Twingly

For the longest period of time, all I knew was that I had been invited to visit and work with a team by Shadowman. Well, at least that's his avatar. My Google-fu skills failed me and as much as I tried, I couldn't quite remember how Shadowman, alias dentarg, alias

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Journeyman: the first month

Summarising the first leg of the journey was initially less than straightforward. I set out to overcome my own fears of being a one-trick pony, ill-equipped to handle a different job than I've been doing or a different technology stack than I've been using for the past four years. I

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Journeyman: Elabs

Let me preface this instalment of my journeyman tales by this: if I was living in Gothenburg, I would eagerly spend my working days at Elabs. But more importantly, I would want to spend a lot of my free time with them as well. To the outside world Elabs might

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Journeyman: Transmode

You, Pia said, waving a finger at me as I was sitting next to her waiting for the next lightning talk to begin at Agila Sverige. I want to talk to you. Less than a month later I found myself in the halls of Transmode, or more specifically, in their

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Journeyman: Agical

Late to the party, I was completely oblivious to the notion of a community of developers, exchanging ideas and experiences freely and willingly. When I at long last discovered that there was in fact such a thing, I largely did so through the monthly events hosted by Agical. Throughout the

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Shame by example

Sorry that I'm a year late, Adam said. What do you mean? I replied. Well, I haven't watched your talk from last year until now, but now I've done so and it's great. Alliterations, well-rehearsed, inspiring. I felt a bit fatigued earlier, but got energised by seeing it. At this

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Killing your acquaintances

It's a well-known stance that one should be prepared to kill one's darlings. It then comes as no surprise that you should be even more inclined to let go off things you hold less dear as well. Occassionaly you need to be reminded about it though and I just were

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Announcing my journeymanship

To follow the current tour schedule, see the journeyman tour page. For all posts related to the tour, see the journeyman tag page. I have always been inspired by how Corey Haines set out on a journeyman tour; travelling from company to company, working with a multitude of different people

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Kundo can do mob programming

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was invited to facilitate a mob programming session at another company, namely Kundo which is primarily a Python shop. This Wednesday I took some time off and headed over for lunch and an afternoon of mob programming. I've before shared some of

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A mob of mobs

It's been over a year since I last wrote anything about mob programming, but time hasn't stood still. At Mag+ we've continued to use mob programming in various ways and contexts; experimenting with mob sizes of 3-7 as the team size and interest wane and wax. I'll be revisiting mob

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Walking the Walk

Week 1 Monday morning, weekly planning meeting - How about mob programming[1] this on Wednesday? Over the past few weeks, the team had worked in pairs on separate parts of a new system. However, the previous week had been interrupted by illness and meetings so I felt we had

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Mob Refactoring

Today at work we tried mob refactoring, which is just like mob programming, but instead of creating new code you refactor existing code. Our goal was mostly to spread knowledge within the group, to even out the knowledge a bit and also practise refactoring. We are lucky enough to have