Guest Mobbing at Emmersion
A few weeks ago I saw a post on Twitter , asking if anyone would like to join a team as a guest-mobber at Emmersion . Unless you're a contractor, or freelance, then it's not often you get to work with complete strangers, to see how they work, what kind of problems they face, how they solve them... Anyway, Mike Clement got back to me, and once we'd sorted out the NDAs, we agreed on a two-hour session with one of their dev teams. The slot was right after work for me in Scotland, and early afternoon for them in the US. So last night, I joined a Zoom call, and we jumped straight in to solving a production problem. They had a mob of five, with me as well, and their product owner at the start.We were looking at a problem where the user could do some input, the data should be sent off to a third-party, a response received, and then the UI updated. But something was wrong, and it didn't work. Like a lot us, they had a complex legacy system which none of them understood. It lo