Re: [extremeprogramming] Pairing styles

> Over the years I noted a few more benefits, but also began to gather a list of "management overhead" elements that pairing incurred. When I started doing more mobbing, I realized that it generally eliminates of a lot of these concerns: troublesome pairings, context switching overhead (which does bring some positives), what to do with the odd pair, what to do with solo-dev'd stuff, etc. Nowadays I greatly prefer to mob, though I once again find that 6 hours is plenty.
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> I would never have guessed 20 years ago that mobbing would be easier to accept than pairing, given the common objections at the time. We talked about it at the XP Toronto user group and mostly dismissed it as a pipe dream. "If 2 is good, then surely 3 would be better...."


It’s surprised me as well. Mobbing appears to be less threatening and therefore people are more willing to give it a try.

Today, I often introduce mobbing first and then only later do I talk about pairing as a variant of that. 

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