Mob Programming, the True Approach to Team Development
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Mob programming is presented as a Lean and Extreme Programming practice where an entire team works together at one computer to complete tasks (technical or not). The talk explains what mob programming is, contrasts it with common meetings like grooming and planning, and gives a five-year product-team experience report from Ouest-France with perspectives from a long-time lead and a developer who joined in 2021.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 1:29The dream team
- 9:33Skill development Onboarding
- 10:33No code review
- 12:02Lack of preparation: time wasted on already addressed topics
- 13:57Overly large refactoring
- 14:23Philosophical debates
- 15:11MOB too ambitious
- 18:47No pure design subject
- 19:19Focus on the goal; if an alternative need arises, create a ticket
- 19:44At the end of MOB, it works
- 20:18Gathering around the tech
- 20:57One big screen A whiteboard
- 24:23The law of two feet
- 27:21Fatigue
- 28:03Choosing the right subject wisely
- 28:41Dependencies
- 34:31Codebase








