Jesus fucking nope. This is a good approach for some problems, and it may work for this team, for now, but I doubt that this is either sustainable or scalable.
I've done mob programming a lot and it always seems to break down into either a few developers working while explaining what they are doing to others or a developer just typing what other devs tell them to type.
It does work well for knowledge sharing, but that is about it, IMO.
Also, its biggest proponents (where I worked) always seamed to be the devs who didn't actually do anything and had no real desire but learn. I'm guessing it is easier to sit in the back of the mob then fake work somewhere else. Always seemed to have a meeting when there turn got close.
I've done mob programming a lot and it always seems to break down into either a few developers working while explaining what they are doing to others or a developer just typing what other devs tell them to type.
It does work well for knowledge sharing, but that is about it, IMO.
Also, its biggest proponents (where I worked) always seamed to be the devs who didn't actually do anything and had no real desire but learn. I'm guessing it is easier to sit in the back of the mob then fake work somewhere else. Always seemed to have a meeting when there turn got close.