Randori Mob Coding Session

By popular demand (i.e. 2 people mentioned it...), we're going to run another Randori Coding session (https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2008/10/tdd-randori-session.html).

Randori is an agile TDD coding exercise where two people write code on a big screen, and you swap out one of the people every 5 minutes.

From https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2008/10/tdd-randori-session.html :

In a Randori we work as a group trying to solve a small problem using TDD:

• There is one computer with the video output projected on a screen so all participants can see it.
• Coding is done at the single computer by a pair of developers.
• One half of the pair switches out every 5 or 10 minutes.
• The pair on the keyboard should continuously explain what they are doing.
• The pair on the keyboard should stop when someone from the audience falls off the sled — and only continue when that someone is back on track again.
• The audience should give comments on design only when there is green bar. (During red bar audience can only ask questions)
• The pair should not continue on writing new code if other participants are not happy with the current design (The code should be always well refactored before starting to write new code)
• The pair will use TDD (Test-Driven Development).

Christmas may be done, but we've still got the excellent Advent Of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) exercises that we can work through as part of the exercise.

Arrive 6pm and socialise a bit, then we'll kick off the meeting proper at 6:30.

As usual, there will be pizza, and beverages.

Thanks to our amazing sponsors, Envato (https://envato.com/) for venue and food, and Lucida (http://lucidaco.io/) for beverages.