From the course: Agile Software Development: Pair and Mob Programming
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Workflow via Kanban boards
From the course: Agile Software Development: Pair and Mob Programming
Workflow via Kanban boards
- [Instructor] Another technique that has been useful with Mob programming teams is using some sort of system to communicate the tasks that they're working on. And the most common thing I see is some type of Kanban board. Now, Kanban comes from manufacturing, specifically car manufacturing, and very specifically, from Toyota. So the idea is that you have a board which talks about your work. And you can see an example here where we've got Post-Its on a board and we have a Backlog. So we have some software features or bugs that we need to work on. You can see that we have color-coded sticky notes here, and those can have some meaning as well, priority, or they can have a team or a type. And then we have To Do items, and then we have In Progress. Now normally, you'll only have one In Progress per mob at a time. And then we have Testing, and then we have Done. Now this is not only important for communication inside the mob that's working on a particular problem, but it's really important…
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