Mob programming - Codecoupled

Mob It!

For this year's Ship It! conference I gave a talk on mob programming. Seeing that I had been given the time slot directly after lunch on the first day of the conference, I decided to switch things up a little. Thus, instead of giving an ordinary talk, I read a

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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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Journeyman: Avanza

Much like Agila Sverige gave me the opportunity to introduce MittMedia to MobProgramming, it also opened the door for doing the same at Avanza, the largest online stock broker in Sweden. Leading up to the tour stop, it was specifically requested that I would facilitate a team new to mob

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Journeyman: Sqore

It was Wednesday morning and I was in somewhat of a sour mood. The previous day's mob programming session hadn't progressed in any way I thought it would. To a greater extent than in other novice mobs I have attempted to facilitate, people had come and gone over the day.

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Journeyman: MittMedia

For an excellent writeup in Swedish from the perspective of the MittMedia development team, see Mathias Nylén's blog post. Satisifed with the last few adjustments to the presentation, I glanced out of the window at the landscape speeding by. What had I actually gotten myself into when I agreed to

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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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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: 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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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