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Showing posts with label Mobbing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobbing. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Navigating in the wrong level of abstraction

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It was a big agile conference in the US, and I participated a session on with a demo of mob programming. Demo meant the facilitator of the ...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Pairing and Mobbing are not the only ways to collaborate

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A friend I enjoy connecting with on testing themes sent me a message today. They expressed they had enjoyed my pair testing article on medi...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Attribution for Work Performed in a Mob

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In 2017, I delivered a keynote at StarWest, talking about Making Teams Awesome. One of the main themes I talked about back then was a them...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Mob Testing is Different to a Bug Bash

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When I introduce Mob Testing (all of us testing together on one computer), I find myself in a place where people who are not doing mob tes...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Power dynamics in pairs and mobs

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Four years ago, I wasn't pairing or mobbing. Frankly, I found both of those intimidating. Instead of expressing that I was scared, I t...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Grow your Wizard before you need them

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Making teams awesome is something I care deeply for, so it is  no wonder that discussions I have with people are often on problems around t...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Playing with rotation time in a mob

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A common thing to happen in a retrospective after Mob Testing is that someone points out that they feel they need more time as designated n...
Monday, November 27, 2017

A Search for Clear Assignments

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I spent a wonderful day Mob Testing with a bright group of people in Portugal today. They left me thinking deeply on two things: Importa...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Mob Programming on a Robot Framework Test

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A year ago as I joined my current place of work, I eagerly volunteered to share on Mob Programming in a session. As I shared, I told people...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Is Mob Programming just Strong-style Randori?

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Back in the days before Mob Programming was a thing, there was a way of deliberate practice referred to as Randori. The idea there was pret...
Monday, June 12, 2017

From avoiding tech debt to having tech assets

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The question I always get when talking about mob programming is how could that be a better / more effective way of working than solo work....
Monday, March 13, 2017

A Mob Testing Experience

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During my 6 months at the new job, I've managed to do Mob Testing a few times. Basically the idea is that whenever I sink into a new fe...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Your choice, explorer!

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I had five amazing, insightful volunteers for my demo exploratory testing mob at Testbash Philadelphia. Their open reactions made the exper...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Ruining the life of the introvert

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I listened to an insightful talk by Elizabeth Zagroba  on Succeeding as an Introvert yesterday, and throughout the talk I kept reflecting m...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

Mob Testing after New Work

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I'm absolutely delighted to have tester colleagues again. Well, we call us quality engineers, but the name does not change it - there...

Not the same task

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I share experiences and thoughts I've had on mob programming and mob testing from my starting points and perspectives. I don't get ...
Friday, November 4, 2016

Mobbing with someone who hates it

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A lot of times when I talk about how much I've come to enjoy mob programming as a tester (feeling increasingly more comfortable in the ...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Details into Mob Exploratory Testing

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I love exploratory testing, and have a strong belief in the idea that exploration can have many paths to go forward and still end up in gre...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Other lessons shadowed by Mob Testing

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Reflecting what discussions took place in the last two days of Mob Testing on a course, I realized there is a pattern I think I'm seein...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Mob Testing meets Automation

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Some months ago, I received an email inviting me to do a public test automation course in Jyväskylä, Finland. This course would be my third...