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Re:Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great by perlgeek on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:39PM (#11855656)
How big is the mob? I don't think you want to do this 20 or more programmers (the more people you have, the more formalized communication structures you typically need).

I could imagine this working with four or five people, and I'd be worth the experiment, but I don't think I'd want to do it all the time.

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Re:Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great by obeka on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @01:33PM (#11856052)
(Author here) The team in this post was six when we started, four now (five if you count our coach who's actually worming himself into the mob now ;) ).

I would definitely not do this with 20. Then again I really wouldn't want to work in a team of 20 no matter the method.

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