Dealing with Other Flow Breakers

There are a few more common flow breakers that will impact your team when mobbing. Here are some strategies you can take to deal with them.

Ad hoc Disruptions to the Mob

External ad hoc disruptions to the mob while they’re working negatively impact flow in a major way; this should not be a surprise, you experienced this problem before when everyone was working solo. Remember the time when you were in the middle of solving a complex problem, and someone popped by to ask you about something totally unrelated to what you were doing? Chances are, that made you lose your train of thought.

When you’re working on your own, the impact of a disruption is high on you but low on the overall team (everyone else was doing their ...

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