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Lea is a strong voice for including the whole cross functional team in a mob – mobbing discovery and delivery – all the benefits and how you can work with challenges that comes with it.

She has been mob developing since mid 2016 as a UX designer, together with programmers, tester and product owner. Lea loves to share experiences, learn about and coach other teams working as a mob. She also facilitates workshops and retros in mob development and has held several talks as well as written about mob development.

Lea works as UX designer / researcher in a team of eight, developing digital services for mainly SVT News and Sports (Swedish Television). Everyone in the team participates in the team mob more often than not. Read more about our wins as a mob, and how we handle difficulties, in this post.
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After studying finance and economic mathematics at Technical University in Brunswiek (Germany) Mira Kottmann joined BREDEX GmbH as a Technical Test Consultant in early 2018. Having gained testing and developing experience from various agile projects, she always can use those skills to consult for internal and external projects. As a big fan of exploratory and mob testing she once said: “Introducing Exploratory Mob Testing to a new team and seeing the benefits of these sessions is the most satisfying thing to do in my job as a consultant”.
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Joseph (Joe) Yoder (agilist, computer scientist, speaker and pattern author) is the founder and principal of The Refactory (www.refactory.com), a company focused on software architecture, design, implementation, consulting and mentoring on all facets of software development. Joe serves as president of the board of The Hillside Group, a group dedicated to improving the quality of life of everyone who uses, builds, and encounters software systems. He is best known as an author of the Big Ball of Mud pattern, which illuminates many fallacies in software architecture. Joe teaches and mentors developers on agile and lean practices, architecture, building flexible systems, clean design,
patterns, qualities, refactoring, and testing.
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Elizabeth Zagroba is a Test Engineer at Mendix in Rotterdam. Alongside her everyday work serving as the tester and Scrum master for her team building a new flagship product, she encourages and supports quality throughout the organization by actively contributing to the mob testing practice, the test guild, and the agile guild she founded. She is one of the organizers of Test Craft Camp, an annual unconference held in the Netherlands. She was the keynote speaker at Let’s Test in South Africa in 2018, and she’s spoken and given workshops at TestBashes and other conferences around North America and Europe. Her article about mind maps became one of the most viewed on the Ministry of Testing Dojo in 2017.
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Woody Zuill is an independent Agile Guide and Coach who has been programming computers for 35+ years. He is a pioneer and originator of the Mob Programming approach to teamwork in software development, and is one of the founders of the “#NoEstimates” discussion on Twitter. His passion is to work with teams to create an environment where each one of us can excel in our work and in our life.

He loves working with legacy code, and believes that code must be kept simple, clean, and easy to work on so we can work just as fast tomorrow as we can today.
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Scott Ford, who has been called the “Bob Vila of the internet”, is the Co-Founder and CTO of Corgibytes — a boutique software consultancy specializing in modernizing and maintaining existing codebases. Scott is a polyglot developer who, at last count, is fluent in over twenty programming languages. Scott’s love of software restoration and remodeling began in college where he and his team were responsible for retrofitting the testing tools for the X-31 jet fighter. Since then, Scott has maintained a test-focused approach to his work and found the most joy in projects where an existing codebase needed to be improved. Scott is currently working on his first book Software Remodeling: A DIY Approach to Transforming Your Legacy Code.

In addition to fixing old code, Scott enjoys anime, reading sci-fi fiction and comic books and spending time with his kids. And yes, he does have a Corgi, her name is Ein, and if you recognize that reference, we might just give you a discount.
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