Zuill Woody – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org Networking Events for Agilists, Agile Software Development, GamingWordPress Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:03:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://agilenewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-ANE_Logo_512x512Transparent-32x32.png Zuill Woody – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org 32 32 Software Teaming and AI, Thinking Together with AI https://agilenewengland.org/software-teaming-and-ai/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:01:06 +0000 https://agilenewengland.org/?p=17397 What happens when collaborative development meets artificial intelligence? This session will explore how Software Teaming and AI can complement each other to amplify learning, improve outcomes, and strengthen team alignment.

You’ll see how teamwork is a powerful and effective way to create software, and how working with AI as a team compliments teamwork. We think of this as AI-assisted teaming – which can include everything we do from ideation to deployment and beyond. We’ll share what has worked, what hasn’t, and how to keep humans at the center of collaboration.

If you’re curious about Software Teaming (also known as Mob or Ensemble Programming) or if you’re experimenting with AI tools, you’ll see practical ways to integrate both without losing the magic of thinking together.

About the Speakers:

Woody Zuill is an Agile and Lean Software Development guide who has been programming computers for over 40 years. He is an originator and pioneer of the Software Teaming (Mob Programming) approach to teamwork in software development. He has spoken frequently at Agile New England meetings and played a leading role in organizing and delivering our Agile Games conferences.

James Herr is a software engineer passionate about AI, Claude Code, and collaborative ways of working. He advocates for Ensemble/Mob Programming and enjoys experimenting with how AI can help teams build, learn, and think together. Outside of work, he’s a game developer and game jam organizer who uses game development as a playground for new ideas.

Agile New England’s Monthly Keynote Speaker is Virtual!

Please note our keynote will be fully virtual with no in-person meeting. The new timeline follows:

5:30 – 6:30 pm ET – Agile 101 breakout with Garry Miller (or network in main Zoom session)

6:30 – 8:00 pm ET – Keynote Speaker, followed by announcements and free-form networking

]]> Principles of Advanced Software Teaming (Mob Programming) https://agilenewengland.org/principles-of-advanced-software-teaming-mob-programming/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:49:09 +0000 https://agilenewengland.org/?p=16005 Software Teaming (Mob Programming) is a cost-effective, collaborative, fun way to get work done together. It’s a whole-team approach to development, where coding, designing, testing, and interacting with the “customer” (partner, Product Owner, User, etc.) is all done as a team.

In this session, we’ll cover some of the important ideas that we used when creating Software Teaming. The 4 main points are:

  • Make it easy for everyone to excel
  • Turn Up The Good on things that are going well
  • Deal with failures to communicate
  • Lead from within so everyone can both lead and follow dynamically

About the Speaker:

Woody Zuill is an Agile and Lean Software Development guide who has been programming computers for 40+ years. He is an originator and pioneer of the Software Teaming (Mob Programming) approach to teamwork in software development and provides workshops, coaching, and training on team software development. He is also a founder of the “Beyond Estimates” discussion, and a frequent speaker at conferences and developer meet-ups all over the world. He has been a founder, Product Owner, and key facilitator of Agile New England’s Mob Programming and Software Teaming conferences.

]]> Lightning Talks! Highlights from the Agile Games & Mob Programming conferences https://agilenewengland.org/lightning-talks-highlights-from-the-agile-games-mob-programming-conferences/ Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:37 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=9224 This was a joint presentation with the Agile Games and Mob Programming 2017 conferences, held at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, not at Constant Contact in Waltham!

This a special edition of Agile New England! We’re hosting the Agile Games and Mob Programming conferences during the week of April 6.  That’s the same week as our monthly meeting. We’ll share highlights from both conferences via a series of lightning talks.

Want a quick taste of Agile Games? Curious about Mob Programming? Join us April 6, and you won’t be disappointed.

Featured lightning talk speakers include:

 

Kim Pfluger, Agile marketer, manager, master of organizational change, and musician

 

 

2017-04 Kim Pluger

 

 

Jon Odo, Agile coach and recovering program manager

 

 

Wendy Wong, head of program management at Constant Contact Download the slides

 

 

 

Woody Zuill, keynote speaker, co-originator of Mob Programming, and author of Mob Programming: a Whole Team Approach

 

 

 

Gillian Lee, ICAgile certified coach at Rangle.io, co-organizer of the AgileTO Meetup and lead facilitator for bi-monthly interactive breakout group activities such as Lean Coffee, Lego Shared Visioning, Decider Protocol and Resolution Protocol the Agile Work Game and Retrospectives

 

Harold Shinsato, keynote speaker, founder of the Montana Code School, and co-author of The OpenSpace Agility Handbook

 

 

2017-04 Harold Shinsato

 

 

 

Marah Rosenberg, Artist and agilist

 

 

2017-04 Marah Rosenberg

 

 

David Grabel, enterprise Agile coach bringing agile beyond engineering at Vistaprint, introduced Scrum, Kanban, XP, and SAFe to organizations of sizes varying from single team startups to large organizations with over 500 teams

 

 

2017-04 David Grabel

 

Wendy Closson, Lead Code Whisperer at Corgibytes

 

 

 

 

Llewellyn Falco, technical coach extraordinaire

 

 

2017-04 Llewellyn Falco

 

 

 

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