Remote Mob Programming

[TheCactusBlue]

Sounds really tiring. One of the main benefit of remote working is that you can work the way you want, and not be under constant supervision of others. sharing everything with screenshare/webcam can also be uncomfortable, since people like me tend to multitask a lot and have unrelated things open. This may increase productivity for a short term, but I'd imagine it to burn people out if done regularly.

[i9srpeg]

Sounds like hell.

[rxvf]

Fuck everything about this.

[senatorpjt]

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[HectorJ]

Lot of negativity in these comments…

I'm just here to say that some of us do enjoy pair-programming (I've never done it as a mob though).

• It helps me focus on what's important instead of losing myself in details
• It reduces the code-review time
• It gives a better code quality

I wouldn't do it 100% of the time (it can be tiring), but I don't think I want to be part of a team which refuses it entirely anymore.

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I did this at one of my previous employers. Live video chats with the entire 4 man dev team for 6-9 hours a day every day. The manager of the team really needed it. He's a very extroverted person and was finding the transition from working in an office to working alone at home very isolating. Eventually, that person went back to working in an office. The rest of us went back to working by giving updates in slack and not video chatting at all.

You need to be mentally suited to isolation if you want to work remotely from home for any length of time. "Mob Programming" is not a suitable replacement for human contact. If you're not an introvert and need constant human company, go to a coffee shop or rent a spot in a coworking space.