Equality of Voice in a Mob or Ensemble One of the most common questions I get about mob programming is the following: "How often should any one person be navigat...
Overtime in Software Smells Bad Earlier in my career as a software manager at one of my previous jobs I would get the call from my boss at 3:45 pm... "Chris, go buy su...
Product Owner Prioritization, Lean, and Experimentation In environments I have seen, the Product Ownership (PO) role and the Software Developer role (Dev) are separated by some sort of artificial ...
Checklists, Mobbing, and Software Development After reading the Checklist Manifesto, I started creating a number of checklists that I thought were useful. I want to begin publis...
Safe Peer-Driven Goal Setting 360 Retro Candor along with giving and receiving feedback is arguably one of the most important aspects of high-performing teams. However, givin...
Goals Principles & Rules Many people come and visit our software development department. In one such visit Mitch Lacey pointed out some items on the walls that...
Mob Programming and Personal Satisfaction Solo Coding vs Mob Programming I had a really awesome question come in and I wanted to work through ideas I have around the topi...
Self Organizing, Production Maintenance, and Mob Programming Q&A; Target software team Markus S forwarded questions from his team at Target: Questions for the Hunter Mob(s):
Q&A Emergent Architecture & Mob Programming Recently Nicholas U had a question about emergent architecture that I would like to address in this blog. Here is the question: “Eme...
What are UI Dependencies and how do you Peel them? Q&A In a prior Q&A post I answered a question on our development process and Nicholas U has a follow-up question. In the diagram what ...
Mob Programming, Flat Structure, and Technical Development Q&A I received more questions from Nicholas U in a previous blog and once again his questions are great ones and I would like to answer them a...