Who Should Be in the Mob
In Deciding Who’s in Your First Mob, you tackled who should be in your first couple of mobs, and you kept the number of participants small, ideally having 3 to 4 people at most. When preparing your team for regular mobbing, it’s worth exploring this further.
First, there is no definitive answer on how may people should be in a mob; current trends are that mobs tend to be between 3–5 people, although some mobs are significantly larger. It varies depending on the problem you’re solving and who you need in order to solve it.
Instead of giving your team a hard rule on who should be in a mob, and who shouldn’t, it’s better to teach them the principle for being in the mob and allow them to self govern. In this case, the principle ...
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