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Mob programming is a technique used by a collaborative software development team to rapidly solve a problem, or to write complex software. Mob programming is similar to pair programming, but with two distinctions. First, mob programming uses as many developers as possible so that many perspectives lead to a more complete solution. Secondly, mob programming is performed on-demand, and it is not a standard behavior for the team.

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Dalton, J. (2019). Mob Programming. In: Great Big Agile. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4206-3_39

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