Making it easy

Hi all!

Woody Zuill is coming to Stockholm! I've seen him last year in one meetup and now he is going to share his experiences with us again!

Woody Zuill is an ex developer, now he does a mob programming workshops, talks and presentations on agile topics, and coach people who are interested in creating a wonderful workplace where people can excel in their work, and in their life.

Last year I was very inspired by his keynote. He talked about making it easy. Making it easy to create new products, making it easy to collaborate, making it easy to learn and share the knowledge and making it easy to be a great team in IT world.

He asks why does it have to be so difficult? I remember he quoted Peter Drucker in his slides and the very beginning of his speech:

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

It seems clear that there is often a "right way" or "best practice" for many tasks in the modern workplace - but is that clarity real, or just a trick that we play on ourselves?
The biggest successes he has experienced in software development have been the result of finding ways to Make It Easy for people to excel in their work, and to connect and interact as humans.
One of his "experiments" has been mob programming.

"All the brilliant minds working together on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer" - We call it "Mob Programming". - Woody Zuill

Mob programming works like this: with dual projectors, one computer, two keyboards, and a very collaborative approach we use this approach to super-charge our development efforts and deliver high value software quickly.

Mob programming in the essence is all about simplifying developers work and increasing collaboration, productivity, making less errors and learning from each other.
I think both a great challenge but also an opportunity trying to simplify the workflows at work and in the teams.

Would love if you could share some people who inspires you!