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Observing versus mobbing

Observing versus mobbing

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Observing versus mobbing

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- [Instructor] So as we've been learning about collaborative coding, again, I want to remind you that this course is really just a subset of all the possibilities. Asynchronous collaboration in the form of open source GitHub pull requests, collaborating on Google Docs, Slack integrations, email updates, or even observing are very useful techniques in terms of collaboration. I just think it's helpful to call them asynchronous. We're focusing on synchronous collaborations that involve some sort of coding. Now, we've looked at local pair programming, remote pair programming, local mob programming, and I really want to give a shout out to remote mob programming. I have seen remote mob programming be a successful addition to many types of collaboration. So what does that look like? So remote mobbing can be an add-on to a local mob. So, for example, a team that I worked with had one staff member, because they had childcare situation, that needed to be in a different city. That staff member…

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