Wow! I couldn&#x27;t have said it better myself. Having worked across a variety of codebases and teams over the last 10+ years, it has become obvious to me that delivering software is an inherently social activity (at least the delivery of valuable software)<p>IMHO, the reason we&#x27;ve seen the rise of XP, Behaviour-driven Design (BDD) and DevOps is that each part of the software delivery community is gradually coming to this conclusion within their own realm<p>Mobbing for me just makes sense on so many level, especially from the point of view of adding &#x27;expertise&#x27; to a problem&#x2F;solution:<p>Not sure on how to integrate the latest language feature into your code - bring someone with experience into the mob...<p>Not sure how this feature could be tested - bring a QA&#x2F;tester into the mob...<p>Not sure of the infrastructure requirements of this new database - bring an operator into the mob...