The Mobbing Manual

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The mobbing manual provides guidelines for working in a group oriented context

Values

• Kindness
• Consideration
• Respect

Roles

• Driver Learning Goal: practice keyboarding, listening, and translation skills.
• An intelligent keyboard
• Doesn't type unless directed
• Has a backseat driver role
• The driver can say, "IDK, I need help."
• Primary navigator
• Helps digest the group's ideas and pass them on to the driver Learning goal: to articulate actions/next steps, solve programming problems
• The person to the right of the driver. They get to navigate for fifteen minutes, while the driver is at the keyboard
• Backseat driver
• If the primary navigator doesn’t know what to do next, they can ask the rest of the group

Rules

1. Express high-level intent. For example, say “show files” instead of “ls”.
2. No reaching in when someone is at their keyboard. If someone reaches in, you yell “Hot Potato”.
3. Keep a learning journal, recap what you learned at the end of the session.
4. Be kind with other people’s equipment, and be gentle with keyboards.
5. Keep regular breaks
6. When people work remotely, try to loop them in.
7. Respect the timer, but be flexible about times when there is a big group.