Mob Programming Challenges, Success Factors, and Practices: A Multivocal Literature Review Protocol with Preliminary Results

Abstract

Mob programming (MP) is an emerging and relatively new and unexplored programming technique while getting more and more popularity and attention in the software industry. Due to the infancy of this area, there is a significant requirement to identify critical success factors (CSFs), that may be beneficial to be adopted by developers and critical barriers (CBs) that may hinder in the way of MP in software industry. Similarly, there is also a strong need to identify practices that may be beneficial for adopting the CSFs and for addressing the CBs. – The objective of this paper is to design a Multivocal literature review (MLR) protocol to systematically review the literature to identify CSFs, CBs, and their associated practices. Primary objective of the author is to develop MP maturity model (MPMM). Crruntly protocol of this study is in the implementation stage of the MPMM. The anticipated outcome of this protocol is to identify CSFs, CBs, and associated practices in MP with the aim of enhancing, productivity, and quality of software development in the software industry. The identified CSFs lead to develop a MPMM. The proposed model is expected to assist software vendors in addressing the challenges faced by them during software development.