Olivier Costa invited us for a mob session, it was really great to join and see how it could work.
Preparation
We built up teams, carefully to add at least one expert to a team.
The flow and agenda
We discussed the topic what we will deliver during the mob session.
There several stories, but of course during an hour we did not go so far.
So in a mob session there are several roles
And of course we switch a lot.
Tooling
We used miro for the explanation and retro, and Hopin for the communication.
These are great tools for any meeting.We used Anydesk to login to the development environment.
The mob session
We used Visual Studio for coding in C#. I used this language for my diploma in 2005, that time the version was .NET 1.4.
I had two .NET coder teams to coach in the last years, so I was ok to join.
But in fact if you dont know the exact syntax, the mates will help you. I would not skip any mob because of the tools or language.
There were few issues for me:
- too many navigator
- too many speaker
- too many details about the architecture and we just touched one or two classes.
TDD is always great and during mob it is FUN.