The Mob Mentality Show

Mob Programming in Intro Comp-Sci Courses with Youwen Ouyang

What was your college computer science experience like?Did it have helpful levels of collaboration and teamwork? Were you able to learn from other students? Or was it mostly divide and conquer in isolation?What would it be like if a computer science course were designed to not only teach you how to code but also how to have healthy collaboration, vulnerability, kindness, consideration, and respect? 
Join Chris and Austin as they discuss with their former professor Youwen Ouyang about her past and current applications of #MobProgramming in Intro Comp-Sci Courses where she shares challenges, strategies, and benefits of this approach.
Video and Show Notes: https://youtu.be/CFwjz3TZe-E 

Mob Programming Roles: Major Pain and Dr. Feel Good

While mob programming, how do you verbalize pain? How do you express joy?  When do you amplify pain in the mob and show empathy? When do you recognize happiness and encourage it to take center stage? Why call for a retrospective on a pain point? Why inspect and adapt to turn up the good? 
Join Chris and Austin as they share about the new Mob Programming Roles "Major Pain" and "Dr. Feel Good."  They not only give some examples of how to take on these roles in your mob, but also share some stories of people who embraced these roles in the spirit of continuous improvement to take their team to the next level.
Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/BfsxfEDn9q4 

Socratic Learning and Tech Optimized Interpersonal Interactions with Michael Strong

How do you keep engagement and productivity high in your interactions? Whether the conversation is about code in a mob programming session, market experiments in a story mapping session, or what is good and true, how do you amplify psychological safety, constructive radical candor, and learning? What things drive the interaction towards a consistent shared mental model and towards discovering the next best experiment to run? 
Join Chris and Austin as they discuss Socratic Learning and Tech Optimized Interpersonal Interactions with Michael Strong. They not only explore non-tech techniques for these crucial conversations but also share about some tech tools that have helped many optimize their interpersonal interactions. In addition, they touch on some agile/holacracy management concepts and their application to creating a healthy learning environment for large groups.
Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/dOG9nqX4Vow  

Legacy Code Refactoring and Mending with M. Scott Ford

When you enter a legacy code base, where do you start? How do you analyze the code? How do you set it up for safe changes? How do you know when to stop cleaning?Join Chris and Austin as they not only discuss legacy code refactoring and mending with M. Scott Ford from Corgibytes, but also share some analogies for code technical health and safety.Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/2ay2kQu6PZw 

Models of Teaching and Learning in Mob Programming

How do you prefer to learn? Do you prefer to run some experiments first and then later get guidance? Alternatively, do you prefer to first have someone with expertise model and guide you? Are there situations where one method is more effective than the other?Join Chris and Austin as they share about different models of teaching and learning they have seen work well in Mob Programming including the "I do, we do, you do" model and the "You do, (and if needed, we do)" model.Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/ygImu9e9O68 

AI Enabled Mobs for Learning with Carolyn Rosé

Often in mob programming great facilitators emerge. They rise to the occasion to help each team member learn and contribute. Now imagine a learning context where the great facilitator that emerged was AI. A conversational agent skilled and trained in sponsorship and mob roles. An AI facilitator that not only helps to keep the mob code flowing but also helps students work through conflicting ideas, collaborate, and retrospect. Instead of the usual "divide and conquer" seen in group projects, students build a shared mental model together and truly work together.Join Chris and Austin as they discuss the implementation of these "AI Enabled Mobs for Learning" with Carolyn Rosé from Carnegie Mellon University.
Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/LpbtwxxhTlQ 

The Samman Technical Coaching Method with Emily Bache

What is your coaching method? Does it change how your developers write code everyday? Does it increase agility in your software development organization? 
Join Chris and Austin as they discuss the Samman Technical Coaching Method with Emily Bache. Emily not only shares about her book on this topic but also about the coach role in an ensemble and persuading teams to get coaching and to try ensemble working. 
Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/cU8_tqW0tnc 

Mob Programming Interviews

How do you interview candidates? Do you ask them about their views on code, collaboration, and agility? Do you check their ability to recite facts related to the work and industry? Do you ask them behavioral questions about their past or about hypothetical situations?
Come join Chris and Austin as they transport you to a parallel universe for interviews. A universe where instead of talking about code and collaboration in an interview, the candidate actually collaborates on code with the team via Mob Programming. Instead of you hearing how they think they would act, see how the candidate actually acts. You not only see how they go about code implementation, but also refactoring, testing, interpersonal interaction, problem solving, learning, coaching, and design.
In addition, the candidate gets to know by experience what "a day in the life" is like in one of your teams to see if it is their cup of tea.
Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/CJwtj9abK0o 

Mobbing with UX Designers with Gary Saunders

Do your UX designers, UI designers, front-end developers, and back-end developers work as a team?Or individual silos?#LeanUX may have removed some waste but #MobProgramming breaks down the interpersonal barriers to achieve true collaboration.Misunderstandings fade away.Empathy grows rapidly.The customer receives the fully realized product vision born of a real cross-team effort.We have seen this style of work increase flow, delivered value, and market experimentation.
Join Austin Chadwick and Gary Saunders as they present on the pros and cons of mobbing with UX designers at the "Experience Design With Agile & Lean UX" meetup.
Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/47Iae0X9D8w 

Finding Mutual Understanding with Jenny Carlston

Join Chris and Austin as they discuss with Jenny Carlston about finding mutual understanding, mobbing, diversity, Wardley Mapping, wisecrowding, collaborative decisioning, and to top it off, Lean and learner's mindset. 
Video and show notes: https://youtu.be/N0ZIrCPPnic