---
title: "Be Productive and Go Mouseless"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/be-productive-and-go-mouseless.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/be-productive-and-go-mouseless.html"
published: "2009-09-25T08:00:21+00:00"
updated: "2009-09-25T08:01:44.079000+00:00"
tags: ["Growing People", "Self Improvement", "Video"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A short video on YouTube about being a more productive developer by going mouseless and working from the keyboard. A companion to the Stop Using XML video."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Be Productive and Go Mouseless

[![](https://www.5whys.com/img/video/youtube-yMnUtQ7E7Rc.jpg)Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMnUtQ7E7Rc)

Go Mouseless

## Read next

- [How to measure programmer productivity using TDD Katas](https://www.5whys.com/articles/how-to-measure-programmer-productivity-using-tdd-katas.html): How repeating a TDD kata daily builds muscle memory, and how timing it measures programmer productivity and mastery of shortcuts, snippets and tools.
- [Video: Lejla Giske on Listening Modes and Techniques](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-lejla-giske-on-listening-modes-and-techniques.html): A video interview with Bouvet consultant Lejla Giske about listening modes and listening techniques, recorded by Roy Osherove in Norway.
- [The Fear Of Failure And What To Do About It](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-fear-of-failure-and-what-to-do-about-it.html): Using a Milton Glaser video on the fear of failure, a look at why team leaders must take personal risks and how timed experiments can lower them.


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/