The Mob Mentality Show

When it comes to software delivery, what terms do you use to describe results? Products, features, points, enhancements, specs, or requirements? Something else?Who is responsible for software delivery? Who should be? Has Agile missed the boat when it comes to responsibility and leadership?

Join Chris and Austin as they discuss "Responsible Engineers and Outcomes" with Mary and Tom Poppendieck. They walkthrough concrete examples of what it looks like for lean teams to maximize outcomes and minimize outputs. While exploring these examples, they touch on customer interaction, feedback, the responsible engineer, and the single threaded leader.You don't want to miss this episode of the Mob Mentality show with two of the biggest thought leaders in lean software development! 

Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/0PsX6bAfhSI

How can you work/mob in a way where the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of people is paramount?Instead of cookie cutter solutions, how can you create an environment where space and opportunity is made for people to make the choices that are best for their unique circumstances?

Join Chris and Austin as they hear from Sheldon Nunes and Swati Swoboda from Shopify as they share about how they used mob programming to discover new ways of digitally connecting, collaborating, and building relationships. They also shared about prototyping, open team collaboration channels, and much more.

Video and and show: https://youtu.be/AyS5W28VGrs

For software development, what advice would you give that is generally true? If faced with choosing between two alternatives, what proverb more often than not is going to lead us on a good path?

Our hypothesis: "Favor Faster Feedback." Join Austin and Luis Martinez as they share at the 2022 Code Freeze Conference how this not only applies to test speed in TDD, but to almost everything in software development. Whether it is code, pipelines, product features, experiments, people, learning, or peer review, is fast feedback the path to the land of milk and honey?

Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/VHh-tM0gyBE

When a software dev team in the UK Police Force wanted to experiment with Pair and Mob Programming, what did it look like from the Product Manager’s perspective? Did the Product Manager see a difference in quality and delivery? How was the team trusted and protected? What was the impact of Agile thinking and Agile transformation?

Join Chris and Austin as they hear Scott Fulton tell his story of a "A Mob Programming Journey from a Product Manager’s Perspective." 

Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/YCufE_nf87M

If one's continuous improvement cycle leads to an adoption of Mob Programming, does Scrum largely disappear?Is it a paradigm shift where one set of principles and practices is completely changed out for a new one? Or, do the same principles and practices merely show up differently? Or something in-between?

Join Chris, Austin, Ryan Ripley, and Todd Miller as they share and discuss their take on "Does Mob Programming Replace Scrum?" In addition they talk about mob programming vs. code review, continuous improvement, and pair/mob programming being exhausting vs. sustainable.

Video and Show Notes: https://youtu.be/JdpS3kXWZNI

In the mobile game development world, what does Mob Programming and TDD look like? How does an Agile mindset and DevOps thinking apply in this space? 

Join Chris and Austin as they explore with Roni Jokinen the similarities and differences of Mobbing, TDD, DevOps, and Agile in mobile game dev vs. enterprise software development. 

Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/tWc0EwMhTzc

You may have heard of Mob Programming. But have you heard of Mob NOT Programming?

Join Chris and Austin and they hear Scott Showalter share his story about mob programming for non-code related work. In addition, Scott shares some inspiring thoughts on growing agilists, coaching coaches, and developing team trust.

Video and Show Notes: https://youtu.be/TYbap36WGKk

What voices are heard the most in your tech community? What voices get the most platform time? What voices get the most attention?The seasoned and established? Or the new and growing?

Join Chris and Austin as they hear from Joel Norman the inspiring origin story of the Canton Coders meetup, a community founded on helping new and growing developers of all stripes. Come hear what it is like to be part of a community that favors the coder over the employer. Come hear about a meetup that helps devs of all kinds learn via warm and welcoming mob programming. Come hear about a community that really cares and helps people find good healthy jobs. Lastly, come hear Joel's elevator pitch for Mob Programming's ROI.

Video and Show Notes: https://youtu.be/UAi3EgcQkvY

Think that pull requests (PRs) are the only way to do open source? Think again!Join Chris, Austin, and Matt Wynne as they not only discuss Mob Programming on Cucumber’s Open Source but also how to do so in a way that strives for inclusivity and vulnerability. Lastly, Matt shares about the synergy between BDD/Cucumber, ensemble programming, and quality.Video and Show Notes: https://youtu.be/sERkkWQpZ4Q

If you could hand craft an ideal way to launch someone's career in tech and software development, what would it be? What would be the overall goal and how would you achieve it?

How would they learn not only full stack coding skills, but also interpersonal skills? How would they learn to overcome not only technical challenges, but team challenges? How would they land their first job?

Join Chris and Austin as they discuss "Career Launching Bootcamps via Mob Programming" with Oscar Strömsäter, Marcus Hammarberg, and Ossian Nörthen. In this episode, we hear how a mix of mob programming and solo programming is used in their bootcamps to raise up and place the next generation of excellent software developers in their first job. We hear not only what their bootcamps are like from the outside, but also from the inside, that is, from the perspective of someone going through the program. Lastly, we hear how these bootcamp teams overcome hardship together and end up loving their team.

Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/lFnMWN7XBks