I've done all day Zoom/VC mobs, and that sounds exhausting as hell to me. Different strokes and all, but programming this way really takes the fun out of it.
We solve this three ways. 1. We don't do a full 8 hour day, 2. We take breaks every hour, 3. we keep it entertaining by joking around with eachother while we work.
We thought it was going to be exhausting like you said, and one of our guys even brought up that he was very introverted and didn't know if he would be able to do this. To our surprise, the days go by faster (not just because they are shorter), we get done with more work than we did before, and although yes we are tired after working all day, we all look forward to doing it again the next day.
It's true, mobbing isn't for everyone. But for us it couldn't have worked out better.
Yeah I find that I can remote pair for maybe 5-6 hours a day. Catching up on non pairing work things (email and slack and whatever) takes another hour or two, and I’m beat by 4 or 5.
JasonCannon|4 years ago
We thought it was going to be exhausting like you said, and one of our guys even brought up that he was very introverted and didn't know if he would be able to do this. To our surprise, the days go by faster (not just because they are shorter), we get done with more work than we did before, and although yes we are tired after working all day, we all look forward to doing it again the next day.
It's true, mobbing isn't for everyone. But for us it couldn't have worked out better.
ohwaitnvm|4 years ago