Swarm Programming with the Swarm Board
Summary
In this case, I made them uniform in size and shape for your convenience, but often people would use different colors and outlines or different fonts to make it easy to spot their own in the mix. While I realize it’s terrifying to traditional managers to consider working in such a non-roadmapped, unplanned, non-regimented way, it was sufficient to make rapid progress and to incorporate feedback while building. The team will likely make adjustments on the fly if they find that the work is harder and needs more brainpower, or that the group is so large and they can’t maintain full engagement. Working in groups, making rapid progress, and taking hourly breaks had kept them fresh and engaged all day long. Team members or their coach (me) would sometimes call for a quick online checkpoint to see where we were and what needed to be done to meet our schedule and goals for the day.