Work as a Whole Team to Create the Product

Create Your Successful Agile Project — by Johanna Rothman (83 / 168)

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I talked about the interpersonal skills agile teams need to work together in Chapter 3, ​Build Teamwork with Interpersonal Practices​. The payoff for the team building its safety and trust comes when the team members collaborate to build the product.

You’ve seen that agile approaches are about team collaboration to deliver value. Your team might take the collaboration to another level with pairing, swarming, or mobbing.

Pairing
Two people work together on one story, on one machine with one keyboard. Developers might pair-program. A developer and a tester might pair together to review performance. Two testers might pair-test. Any two people working together are a pair. See ​Pairing Creates an Environment of Continuous Review​.

Swarming
The team works together on one story, but each person contributes based on his or her expertise. The platform developer works on the platform, the middleware developer works on the middle ware, the UI developer creates the UI. In addition, the tester develops tests. When each person is done with “their” part, that person offers his or her assistance as a pair to whomever is still working. See ​Swarm on the Work​.

Mobbing
The entire team works together on one keyboard. Think of mobbing as team-pairing. See ​Mob on the Work​.

Here’s the value of pairing, swarming, or mobbing:

Managers who are unsure of flow efficiency may wonder about the “cost” of pairing, swarming, or mobbing.

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