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Through experience, we discovered some unexpected long-term benefits of mob programming: reduces the amount of work to do, makes continuous improvement more effective, improves design discussions
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Swarming is an ensemble programming style where a team decides on work to be done, and then breaks into groups (usually pairs or larger) which operate in a way very similar to pair programming or mob programming until they complete one piece of work, and then dissolve their group and reform to tackle other work.
Remote Mob Programming combines two ways of working: Mob Programming and working as a distributed team.
On October 10th, we are very happy to welcome Woody Zuill to us at Dynabyte! Mob Programming: A Whole Team Approach
The benefits we have seen have far outweighed the initial pain that it caused and has moved our team to a whole other level. We are happier, more productive, and more knowledgeable.
Once we got good at Mobbing, we realized that it also was useful for smaller, simpler problems, because you can often find a way to abstract or automate tasks that are easy or repetitive, like cleaning up items in a database. Working as a team, it’s a lot easier to see patterns and to act on them.
An autonomous collective of courageous and fearless geeks gathered along in a freshly created duchy of perpetually hoarded meeting rooms, and joined forces into an unstoppable mob of programming, leaving behind everything, and starting completely fresh.
a couple of the tables in the middle of the office landscape. We put them together and installed a mob programming station. One big TV, a smaller screen and the dock for the laptop where the mob programming timer is displayed. A wireless mouse and keyboard together with all our mobile test devices completed the equipment. And there we’ve been ever since.
Mob Programming is a development practice where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer.
One could say that with "mob programming", the number of people involved in pair programming has simply been cranked up a bit. I quickly learned that there’s more to it