Celebrating Ada - Mob Programming

The Speaker:

Clare Sudbery is a senior software engineer at LateRooms.com. She has 17 years of software engineering experience, but in the last ten years she has also spent time as a full time novelist and a secondary school maths teacher. She loves coding, teaching, writing and mentoring, but has trouble persuading stroppy teenagers that maths is fun. She is on a mission to awaken the inner geek in clever women everywhere.

The Talk:

Clare and her team have been experimenting with mob programming since January of this year. Mob programming is an extreme version of pair programming, where the whole team work on one problem, around one computer. It has been an interesting journey, and is potentially a technique which can help to smash barriers, increase diversity and increase the confidence of team members who might otherwise be overlooked.