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Typing Facilitator #71

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# Also Known As

# Context

Either

- A quick impromptu mobbing session
- Mobbing with non-developers
- Introducing mobbing to beginners

# Purpose

- Get going, reduce friction
- Lower anxiety levels related to typing in public
- Demo Driving skills
- Could be used to convert a meeting to a working meeting ("Is it ok if we just *did it* right now?")

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This is already covered by "Get going....", but provides a bit more context. It may be too long to be read quickly.

  • To onboard new member(s), an existing member can explicitly review code or give a demo while implicitly introducing team culture - show, not tell.

P.S. This is exactly what happened today (Friday) at the International Code Retreat. Instead of explicitly answering a new member's questions about how we'd worked the day before, I suggested (rather strongly) that the two previous day's participants take comfortable roles of talker and typer, then at a good event break, I passed the keyboard to a newbie, who seamlessly followed the lead (instead of asking 20 questions).

# How To

- Be both Driving and Facilitating
- Demo Driving good practices
- Solicit intentions from the team
- ASAP, and given the context, relinquish Driving to someone else

# Consequences

- Doing both probably means doing both worse
- Increases risk for the facilitator to dominate the session
- Others don't get to practice their Driving

# Collaborators

Single Driver
Dedicated Facilitator