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by Zebra_003 3659 days ago
Hey! One of the authors here.

I really wish we had hard data on this. But we did not have reliable metrics in place before. I would however argue that there isn't data the other way either ;)

But in lack of hard data, I can say what our gut feeling is. We started with mob programming because we felt we had a total inability to deliver anything (lots of half done work), and now we feel like we are delivery frequently with high quality.

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> we felt we had a total inability to deliver anything (lots of half done work)

While I can sympathise with this, I do believe that this is mainly a problem with management. In order for a group to be productive there needs to be a single mind calling the big shots, in your case you offloaded this responsibility to a mob, usually this is the job of a product lead/project manager.