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Never really liked mob programming at my old job. Just made me really distracted and made me feel like I wasn't needed as in my head I knew I was working with t
by benbristow 9y ago
Never really liked mob programming at my old job. Just made me really distracted and made me feel like I wasn't needed as in my head I knew I was working with talented developers who could do what we were doing by themselves. Basically just ended up being a human typo spotter.
One thing we found useful though was using a timer for the 'driver' (person behind the keyboard). I made a terminal one here:
https://github.com/benbristow/agile-timer https://github.com/benbristow/agile-timer
It's more designed for Mac as it uses the 'say' command but could be tweaked easily for Linux users.
Although when I started at my new job I would have found it useful. Trying to figure out custom frameworks where the documentation was in a few people's heads wasn't fun.