30: Facilitation, typical constraints and advertising

The 30th episode with the following questions:

• During the day itself what kind of facilitation do you do?
• Which constraints to use on a typical Coderetreat?
• How to advertise your Coderetreat?

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28: How to keep schedule, including junior facilitators and TDD

In this episode I will answer the following questions:

• A Coderetreat is very busy. How do you keep the schedule?
• How to include a supporting or junior facilitator, e.g. from the hosting company?
• What is Test Driven Development? (Not really answering that ;-)

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Kent Beck's book "Test-Driven Development: By Example"
• Emily Bache "TDD is a Superior Way of Working"
• Dave Farley "Test Driven Development"
• Jason Gorman "Test-Driven Development (TDD) in Java"
• Jason Gorman "7 Myths About Test-Driven Development Debunked"

(Music from Synth Loop 1 by allpurposedw and Gong 001 by tec_studio.)

22: The Coding Dojo, using Coding Dojo exercises and are constraints overrated

In this episode I talking with Technical Agile Coach Emily Bache about her Coding Dojo Handbook and bits of the Coding Dojo can we use in a Coderetreat:

• What is a Coding Dojo?
• What is Emily's Handbook about?
• How can we use smaller exercises in a Coderetreat?
• Are constraints overrated?

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Thank you Emily for sharing your knowledge about Coding Dojos. You can reach Emily on her Twitter for further discussion.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Coding Dojo Handbook by Emily Bache

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21: Participants not getting TDD, increase participation in inhouse Coderetreats and questions in session retro

This episode was inspired by SoCraTes Day Switzerland:

• What if participants don't "get" TDD?
• How to increase participation in inhouse Coderetreats?
• What questions do you ask in the session retro?

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16: Corey Haines' Cleveland Coderetreat Introduction Part 1

In this episode Corey Haines will introduce you to:

• The goal of the Coderetreat
• The 4 Rules of Simple Design

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Check out the full video here:

Material in this episode:

• Corey Haines' Cleveland Code Retreat Introduction from Corey Haines on Vimeo
• On the goals of Coderetreat
• Kent Beck's four rules of simple design

(Music from Synth Loop 1 by allpurposedw.)

13: Primary job of facilitator, first session without pairing and supporting participants' learning journey

Today I talk about the following questions:

• What is your primary job as facilitator?
• Is it allowed to run the first session without any pairing?
• What is Ping Pong?
• How to support participants to continue their learning journey after the Coderetreat?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Managing the Difficulty of Coding Exercises
• A box of things to take from the Coderetreat

Thanks to Christian Haas for feedback on audio quality of this podcast.

(Music from Synth Loop 1 by allpurposedw and Gong 001 by tec_studio.)

11: A remote Coderetreat and overview of constraints

In this episode:

• How to run a remote Coderetreat?
• What are constraints?

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Material used for this episode:

• Retrospective on a Remote Global Day of Coderetreat
• 20/80 - A coding dojo constraint just for fun

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09: Constraint for first session and alternative exercises for Game of Life

In this (longer) episode I asked Sandra Parsick about

• the best constraint for the first session and
• alternative exercises for Game of Life.

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Thank you Sandra.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Coderetreat Problem Is Not The Problem
• Mars Rover kata
• Snake/Nibbles/Tron

(Music from Synth Loop 1 by allpurposedw and Gong 001 by tec_studio.)