Code with the Wisdom of the Crowd

Slow Mobbing

One day, someone in your team is going to say that mobbing is feeling slow—when this happens it is important to establish exactly what is making them feel this way. Is it just a general feeling or is it because someone in the mob is slowing them down?

General Feeling

If it’s just a general feeling that things are slow, it’s often a misconception; sometimes mobbing seems slower even though it is not. Once you take a closer look, you’ll realize that mobbing has removed several things that used to slow things down even more, for instance: code reviews are rendered non-existent due to consensus decision making, stand-ups are quicker because there is less to talk about and fewer defects get to production, which means less re-work.

In fact, ...