Mob programming

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Mob programming
Date	2015-06-27 07:06 +0000
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From the «sounds like misery to me» department:
Title: Mob Programming: When Is 5 Heads Really Better Than 1 (or 2)?
Author: help@slashdot.org
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:34:00 -0400
Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qM3xPidil2M/mob-programming-when-is-5-heads-really-better-than-1-or-2

itwbennett writes: Proponents of Mob programming, an offshoot of Pair
programming in which the whole team works together on the same computer, say
that it increases both quality and productivity, but also acknowledge that the
productivity gains might not be readily apparent. "If you measure by features
or other classic development productivity metrics, Mobbing looks like it's
achieving only 75 to 85 percent of individual or Pair output for, say, a team
of six or seven working for a week," says Paul Massey, whose company Bluefruit
Software is a heavy user of the Mob approach. So, where does the productivity
come from? Matthew Dodkins, a software architect at Bluefruit says the biggest
gains are in code merges. "In a day spent using traditional collaboration, you
would have to first spend time agreeing on tasks, common goals, deciding who's
doing what... and then going away to do that, write code, and come back and
merge it, resolve problems," says Dodkins. By bringing everyone into the same
room, "we try to merge frequently, and try to do almost continuous
integration." Matt Schartman, whose company Appfolio also uses Mobbing and
wrote about his experience, gave Mobbing high marks for producing a quality
product, but didn't find that it improved productivity in any measurable way.

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