# Mob Programming: Smells Like Team Spirit

DevFeed: [Mob Programming: Smells Like Team Spirit](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mob-programming-smells-like-team-spirit-28055.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/2025-12-03-mob-programming-smells-like-team-spirit/>)

Author: Dmytro Kurets

Published: 2025-12-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trivago.md>)

Topics: [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Data analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-analysis.md>), [Refactoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/refactoring.md>)

Tags: [back-end](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/back-end.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [data-analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-analysis.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [front-end](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/front-end.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keyboard.md>), [pairing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pairing.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains mob programming as structured, shared-focus collaboration with one driver, rotating typing roles, and navigators guiding the work. It describes a trivago team experimenting with collaborative review and coding changes to address pull requests piling up and slowing delivery.

## Source excerpt

Mob programming often sparks hot takes. "It's counter-productive." "One person could do it faster." "Why waste five people on one keyboard?" If that's what it looks like in your head--one senior ...