12 Oct 2025
Sharing Mobbing with Others
‘If you have a physical board, start the tour at the board explaining how work progresses; while doing this, talk to them about flow efficiency and why it is a good thing.’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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29 Jun 2025
Focus on Safety
‘...Often the questions you think show your ignorance turn out to be the most useful ones because they accelerate your learning and can also help uncover learning for others.’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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22 Jun 2025
Bring Fear into the Open
‘The first step to addressing the fear of slowing the mob down is talking about it with the person.’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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15 Jun 2025
Less Experienced Person Joining
‘...Here are four things you can do to help alleviate this fear:
• Bring the fear into the open.
• Focus on safety.
• Optimize their learning.’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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Ensemble Tip 11:
Curiosity needs safety to grow. When an Ensemble welcomes questions and uncertainty, it unlocks learning and shared insight.
#CodeCraftWeekends #SocialProgramming #EnsembleProgramming #PairProgramming
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Ensemble Tip 9:
Discovery Trees support iterative, incremental exploration. As an Ensemble builds the tree together, they make their thinking visible—fostering shared ownership, better alignment, and faster decision-making.
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Ensemble Tip 8:
Honoring Strong Style (Ensemble Tip 3) forces us to act deliberately and share knowledge as we go. Our knowledge as a group grows constantly when we work this way, making the Ensemble stronger and more effective each day.
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Ensemble Tip 7:
Ensemblists collaborate with the Navigator. The Driver abstains and waits for direction from the Navigator. This amplifies quieter voices, supporting shared ownership and working against group think.
#CodeCraftWeekends #SocialProgramming #EnsembleProgramming
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30 Mar 2025
'At its core, Mob Programming is a flow-centric way to create software, meaning your mob is working together—continuously—to help move a piece of work from start to finish.’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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23 Feb 2025
'...The number one rule of mob rustling is never force someone to join the mob—encourage, invite, and inspire, but never force.’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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2 Feb 2025
Team Retrospectives
“...I’ve found them the lifeblood of a healthy team. If your team is currently not having regular team retrospectives, it may be time to start doing them—they are extremely useful!”
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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26 Jan 2025
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Thanks to @MarkPearlCoZa’s book here ( trello.com/c/t2eQIKy1/206-co… ), I discovered the following way to make all members of a mob part of the commit: stackoverflow.com/questions/…
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15 Dec 2024
‘There’s a wonderful British saying, “Penny wise, pound foolish,” which means to be extremely careful about small amounts of money, and not careful enough about larger amounts of money.’
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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1 Dec 2024
"Preemptively chatting to non-mobbers about potential noise problems—before they become problems—can be the difference between non-mobbers working with you or against you.”
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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13 Nov 2024
Sitting together in a room programming for the first time in years. Running mobster.cc, even, to help us take turns. Happy memories from a very different time in my life. #MobProgramming #EnsembleProgramming
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9 Jun 2024
“...the more conscientious you are, the better you do at solo work.
...Conscientiousness is also a strong predictor of how well a group will do at Mob Programming...”
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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5 May 2024
Eating together to become more connected:
- share war stories
- share personal experiences
- find common ground
- see each other as people with lives outside of code that we could relate to
― @MarkPearlCoZa
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12 Apr 2024
I will be in Europe for a few weeks and have just had a date open up for the week of April 29-May 4. I could do a workshop, coaching, or any other sort of engagement during that time if you are interested.
#SoftwareTeaming #MobProgramming #BeyondEstimates #EnsembleProgramming
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"In my first job as a software developer, by a string of lucky occurrences, I happened to land someplace doing #ExtremeProgramming. I hadn’t heard of it."
My, how the tables have turned. On myself. New job starts today: schmonz.com/2024/04/09/found…
#XPLives #TDD #EnsembleProgramming
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