Remote Mob Programming In a High Stakes Environment

When you have a newly formed remote team, which has to deliver a system in a high stakes environment—characterised by very short deadlines, high visibility (especially for failure), limited knowledge of some of the technologies to use, and some hard security and accessibility constraints—remote mob programming might not be at the top of your list of methods to use. Yet, this is what we did to deliver successfully, and to very high-quality standards one of the backend systems used by the COVID-19 app for England, and Wales, UK. In this talk Giovanni will share some lessons learned (warts and all) on how remote mob programming helped them achieve their very challenging goals, learning a lot in the process.

Value for the audience:
The audience will learn why mob programming is more effective than splitting work across individuals, also—counterintuitively—in situations where time is short, quality has to be high, and money is limited (no increase in team size). I'll talk, among other things, about learning, team resilience, test automation, and teamwork.

Problems addressed:
Delivering high quality at speed

Creating a resilient team, and avoid depending on individuals

Learning and professional growth

Talk language: English
Level: Advanced
Target group: Programmers, architects, testers, managers, and other stakeholders

Company:
Asprotunity Ltd

Giovanni Asproni