'Learning Through Osmosis' by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Many different roles contribute to building software: product owners, business specialists. testers. Yet knowledge of programming keeps these roles at a distance. In this talk, I will share how I have come to programming: not through wanting to program and taking courses on it, but through working with programmers in a style called mob programming. This talk serves as an inspiration for programmers to invite non-programmers to learning code a layer at a time, immersed in the experience of creating software together to transform the ability to deliver. Lessons specific to skillsets rub in both ways, leaving everyone better off after the experience. In this talk, you will learn: What is mob programming and why you should care about working in that style? How to use strong-style pairing as a means of connecting everyone regardless of their programming skill level? What contributions non-programmers make in a mob before they learn to program? How I became a programmer through working in mobs at work and at community meetups over learning by studying programming?

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1. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Learning Through Osmosis by Maaret Pyhäjärvi
2. @maaretp http://maaretp.com The value of another’s experience is to give us hope, not to tell us how or whether to proceed - Peter Block
3. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Finding Mob Programming From a non-programmer to a programmer through osmosis
4. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Only tester by profession & only woman in my team
5. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Testers don’t break the code, they break your illusions about the code.
6. @maaretp http://maaretp.com “Women only write comments in code”
7. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Dislike of programming (Basic, Scheme, Assembler, Fortran, C++, C, Java, Pascal, Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, Objective C, Swift …)
8. @maaretp http://maaretp.com There was a need of a change of ideas…
9. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Teaching Kids in Pairs
10. @maaretp http://maaretp.com A talk on a strange idea: Mob Programming
11. @maaretp http://maaretp.com "All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, on the same computer." -- Woody Zuill
12. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Trying it out at office and in meetups
13. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Mobbing Setup and Roles Driver Navigators Designated Navigator Facilitator
14. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Strong-Style Navigation “For an idea to go from your head to the computer it must go through someone else’s hands”
15. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Comparison Strong Style Traditional I have an idea… Please take the keyboard I have an idea… Give me the keyboard
16. @maaretp http://maaretp.com
17. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Building psychological safety
18. @maaretp http://maaretp.com An All-Female Hackathon
19. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Programming is like writing. Getting started is easy and it takes a lifetime to get good at.
20. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Lessons Learned Mob Programming Being A Tester in a Mob
21. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Cognitive Dissonance
22. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Non-programmer is often still technical
23. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Polyglot programming teaches culture and courage
24. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Correcting Mistakes without Egos in Play
25. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Knowing what is relevant
26. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Slow allows for thoughtful thinking
27. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Stealth Exploration
28. @maaretp http://maaretp.com My Developers Get Exploratory Testing!
29. @maaretp http://maaretp.com From technical debt to technical assets
30. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Best ideas win when you care about work over credit
31. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Do both!
32. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Best face forward in a group
33. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Everyone welcome with opt-out
34. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Accidental Learning by being Intentional about Learning
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36. @maaretp http://maaretp.com I had great ideas even if I did not know how to turn them to code – removing the distance is worth the struggle.
37. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Teaching Exploratory Testing in a Mob
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39. @maaretp http://maaretp.com Maaret Pyhäjärvi Email: maaret@iki.fi Twitter: @maaretp Web: maaretp.com Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi (please connect with me through Twitter or LinkedIn)