The Agile Embedded Podcast

E82 - Crossover with Mob Mentailty Part 2

Published: October 21, 2025

Duration: 46:50

Key Topics

[05:30] Cross-disciplinary mobbing with firmware and hardware engineers in IoT development[12:45] Addressing efficiency objections: Local vs global optimization in embedded teams[18:20] DevOps collaboration patterns and reducing friction between software and infrastructure teams[25:10] Selling mob programming to management: Building trust through continuous delivery[35:40] Dynamic team composition and the law of personal mobility in technical teams[42:15] Coordinating mob teams with waterfall processes and hardware gate systems[48:30] Automated firmware protocol documentation and testing infrastructure

Notable Quotes

"When you initially hear about mobbing, you think everybody's inactive, but there's a lot of excess thought capacity around programming that...