The cost of Mob Programming
summary
An engineering team practiced mob programming for two years, coding together at one computer with members rotating every four minutes and filmed on a large screen. The talk presents the financial measurements the team took during that period and compares the costs and benefits of mob programming against pair programming and solo development to answer whether mob programming is worth the cost.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Mob Programming defined
- 1:05Solo team velocity
- 2:31Adding a junior
- 3:35Mob Programming trial
- 6:46Management reaction and ban
- 7:51Back to solo consequences
- 8:55Final assessment
- 9:57Resilience and knowledge sharing
- 10:18Slow down to speed up
- 11:06Q&A
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