The Agile Manifesto starts with "we are uncovering better ways of developing software," not "we have uncovered." Agile is a fluid and evolving thing, and two of the most exciting practices that we've uncovered in the past few years are Mob Programming and #NoEstimates.

With Mob Programming, "the whole team [literally] works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, at the same computer." Mobbing is a startlingly effective way to work, with teams typically accomplishing way more than they do working separately. Mobbing leverages group intelligence and extreme collaboration, to accomplish amazing things. Once you've done it, there's no going back

#NoEstimates is a new way to plan. Rather than guessing (and all estimates, especially story points, are guesses), you use continuous value-based projections and hard measurements. It's a proven technique, much more effective and much less time consuming than traditional or story-point estimation (which is, after all, based on waterfall thinking), and much more valuable to the business.

This session looks at both of these practices. You'll learn what mob programming is, how to be successful at it; at how to create the conditions where mobbing is possible. You'll learn how to plan without traditional estimation in a way that's both more effective and more useful to the business than the traditional approach.