We've all had those moments when we need a group assessment of a problem to find a solution. As the saying goes, two minds are better than one. In the case of mob programming, it's all the minds of the team are better than one.

When a team at Hunter Industries faced some significant enhancements on one of their systems, their lead, Woody Zuill, suggested that they assess the state of the code as a group. He figured that diving into a large code base was going to be challenging, and if done individually, would likely result in not everyone seeing the same thing or being on the same page at the end of it.

He booked out a meeting room for the whole team, and they meticulously studied the code together, calling and pointing things out as they spotted them. The team who had spent some of their time in the past few months improving their skills, learning together through Coding Dojos, quickly found a problem in the code and started to refactor it.

After a couple of days, he fully expected them to stop, but they didn't, they kept booking meeting rooms and kept working together as a team. Eventually, when Woody realized the team was going to continue working this way, they reconfigured their workspace for mob programming.