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Mob Programming - What Works, What Doesn’t

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2015)

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At Unruly we are constantly trying to turn up the dial on our XP practices, and in the second half of 2014 we started to take the step from Pair Programming on all production code to Mob Programming with the entire team. This report shares experiences that Unruly has gained in pushing the boundaries of Extreme Programming.

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  1. Unruly, London, UK

    Alexander Wilson

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  1. Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Casper Lassenius

  2. SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway

    Torgeir Dingsøyr

  3. Aalto University, Aalto, Finland

    Maria Paasivaara

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Wilson, A. (2015). Mob Programming - What Works, What Doesn’t. In: Lassenius, C., Dingsøyr, T., Paasivaara, M. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 212. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_33

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