Advanced Software Teaming [Mob Programming] - Woody Zuill - DDD Europe 2024

Domain-Driven Design Europe 2024 - Organised by Aardling (https://aardling.eu/)

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Software Teaming (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.

In this session we'll cover some of the important ideas that Woody used as guidelines in conceptualising creating software as team. The 4 main points he will touch on are:
1 - Make it Easy for everyone to excel,
2 - Turn Up The Good on the things that are going well,
3 - The Failure to Communicate (and a little on how to deal with this),
4 - Leading from Within: the need for each of us to both lead and follow dynamically.

With these things in mind Woody's team were exploring ways to improve their ability to collaborate, and landed on the idea of Mob Programming / Software Teaming. However, these ideas have been meaningful in finding ways to improve their work environment.

About Woody Zuill:
Woody Zuill is an independent Agile Guide and Coach and has been programming computers for 40+ years. He is a pioneer of the Software Teaming /Mob Programming approach to teamwork in software development, and co-author of the book "Software Teaming, A Mob Programming, Whole Team Approach".
His passion is to work with teams to create an environment where each one of us can excel in our work and in our life. He loves working with legacy code, and believes that code must be kept simple, clean, and easy to work on so we can work just as fast tomorrow as we can today.