As another form of organizational learning pairing or mobbing has several additional benefits beyond learning. Pairing is simply the practice have having two people collaboratively work together on one thing. This might seem costly or wasteful, but the added benefits quickly make up for that. This is typically associated with coding but as you will see can be applied to anything.
Mobbing is similar to pairing but with more people involved. One will drive for awhile then hand it over to someone else. The others are present and contributing the entire time with ideas, questions and observations.
For example when developers are coding a new feature…
- A feature is delivered much more quickly
- Building out unit tests is baked into the process
- No need for a separate code review or related delays because that happened along the way
- Participants learn from each other and build skills
- Coding Standards and/or Naming Conventions are more likely to be enforced
Fortunately, we have several NRM Dojo Jumpstarts to get you up and running with this or other organizational learning opportunities.