[beersigns]

I've had a lot of success with paired programming in different team/project environments and really have only done 'mob' experiments. I didn't find there to be a lot of benefit to mobs vs pairing unless the goal was to make sure every team member was highly aware of what was going on in a specific commit/feature-branch.

I definitely think ad-hoc mobbing has it's place and most if not all big design/redesign work the team undertakes should be in a mob form. I'm not sure I could see it being a good practice day to day for most teams/projects though.