Alison McGreavy's slides from her 10-minute lightning talk at Microservices Manchester 2016 on 'Mob Programming.' Alison McGreavy is a Development Effectiveness Manager at Thomson Reuters. thomsonreuters.com/en.html

1. MobProgramming
Alison McGreavy, 5th July, 2016
Microservices Manchester

2. MobProgramming
“All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the
same time, in the same place, and at the same computer”
Woody Zuill

3. Strongpairprogramming
“For an idea to go from your head into the computer it MUST
go through someone else’s hands.”
Llewelyn Falco
http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.co.uk/

4. MobProgramming-Why?
Increased productivity
Get the best of everybody
High level of communication
Smaller feedback loops
Improved focus - ie quality, product
Learning from others

5. MobProgrammingLearning
“Learning Programming by Osmosis” - Maaret Pyhäjärvi
http://www.slideshare.net/maaretp

6. MobProgrammingRoles
Facilitator
Driver
Navigator
Navigators
(Seated)
Screen
Laptop

7. MobProgrammingRules
BeNice
Kindness, Consideration, Respect

8. ManchesterJavaCommunity -MobChoices
IntelliJ
Java 8
Maven
TDD
Junit
Mars Rover Kata (Develop an
api that moves a rover around
on a grid)
Timer - 4 mins

9. MobprogrammingaJavaKata

10. Retrospective

11. Couldhavebeenbetter….
Need design boards and multiple screens
Takes too much time if everyone isn’t on the same page
Interruptions (timer)
Mob too big, try with a smaller group
Too many people
Lost track of objective

12. Roles
It’s hard driving with my mouth shut
Hard not to just type ideas
Need to know when to shut up
Being a navigator was initially confusing
It took a while to get what everyone was trying to say

13. Whatwentwell
Friendly atmosphere and very collaborative
Good mix of abilities
Good to learn other approaches
Discussions were interesting
Good that non coders took part
Nice approach to enter into one’s head
No merge conflicts as done as a team

14. Resources
Mob Programming: A whole team approach - Woody Zuill, Feb 2016, JFokus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cy64qkgTyI
A Day of Mob Programming - Woody Zuill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_pvslS4gEI
Mob ProgrammingA Whole Team Approach - Woody Zuill and Kevin Meadows
https://leanpub.com/mobprogramming
Mob Programming Guidebook - Maaret Pyhäjärvi and Llewellyn
Falcohttps://leanpub.com/mobprogrammingguidebook

15. Alison McGreavy
Email: almcgreavy@gmail.com Twitter: @AlisonMcGreavy http://www.meetup.com/ManchesterUK-Java-
Community/