What Is Mob Programming?
Mob Programming is when three or more people work at a single computer to solve a problem together. It is about leveraging distributed knowledge[3] when programming.
Distributed knowledge is all of the knowledge that a group of people possess and might apply in solving a problem—Mob Programming brings those people together and puts them in front of a single computer.
Mob Programming was first spoken about in the Extreme Programming (XP) community in the early 2000s. At the time, getting even two people to work together at a single computer was seen as “extreme,” so largely the XP community settled on Pair Programming as the de facto way of writing code and Mob Programming faded into obscurity.
In 2015, Mob Programming ...
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