Mob Programming (2018)
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·August 24, 2025setopt
Interesting concept, but they should define mob programming on the landing page instead of having to dig into links.
merelysounds
Wikipedia quotes Marcus Hammarberg:
> The basic concept of mob programming is simple: the entire team works as a team together on one task at the time. That is: one team – one (active) keyboard – one screen (projector of course).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_programming#Mob_program...
The website from this hn submission seems last updated 7 years ago, perhaps the term was more popular back then.
Izkata
Maybe people got interested in it again alongside the rise of Agile? Look at the date of the 4th reference on Wikipedia - it's a whole lot older than 7 years ago.
gtramont
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28S4CVkYhWA - here's Woody Zuill presenting on the subject. Nowadays this practice is also known as Software Teaming, or Ensemble Programming.
UK-AL
Can be fun sometimes. Especially if you rowdy team and debates start happening.
merelysounds
This website hasn’t been updated in a while, perhaps we should add (2018) to the title.
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> Mob Programming is a fairly new concept.
I wonder what it is, even
We did this exclusively at a great company I worked at for years. It was pretty great actually. Never felt stressed, we just collectively knocked out one thing after another in sequence.