Grow Together Over Distance
summary
A small team codes together all day, five days a week, for 3.5 years full-time remote Ensemble programming, rotating the person on the shared screen every 10-minute rotations and handing work off via a tiny open-source tool called mob that creates temporary git branches and auto-collects coauthors. Onboarding drops to a day, bugs fall sharply, time-to-market compresses to days, burnout risk rises so strict breaks and daily retros fix issues, and teams of ~4 work best.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:56Project Kick-Off
- 8:09Camera Always On
- 10:01Screen Sharing
- 10:38Typist and the Rest of the Mob
- 13:09Git Handover
- 21:25Same Time
- 22:23Small Team
- 23:34Learn from the Team
- 25:20Constant Momentum
- 26:40Constant Retrospectives
- 27:45Continuous Improvement
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