Level set

Who has done this before?

Benefits are medium–long-term

More than just two people sitting at a computer

How to pair

History/background

Styles

https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html

On Pair Programming

Time management

Driver and Navigator

Ping Pong

🍅 Pomodoro Technique

Strong-Style Pairing

Plan the session

Set a goal and time box

Pair Development

Start

Resources

🐟🐠 (Questions/comments)

Sarah Mei -- The Power of Agile

Setup

Knowledge Sharing

VSCode Live Share

Keeping focus

https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/990970577543352320

Sarah Mei
By the time I left Pivotal circa 2012, agile had crossed the chasm. Client developers no longer pushed back against the practices - and hadn’t for years, actually.

Reflection

Webex

Benefits

Code review on-the-go

Excalidraw

Wondering why all the agile/XP stuff (like pairing, TDD, etc) doesn’t seem to work for a heterogenous team? It’s because they were developed by a bunch of white dudes. The practices assume the practitioners all have A LOT of built-in privilege.

Two modes of thinking combined

🚫 Things to avoid

Collective Code Ownership

Fast onboarding of new team members

Pair rotations

Drifting apart

Checking email, using your phone. Make it transparent if you need to.

Micro-management mode

Impatience. Apply the 5 seconds rule.

Keyboard hogging

Requires vulnerability

junior < senior

women < men

career changers/self-taught < CS degree

People of color < white folks

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Challenges

Exhausting

Intense collaboration can be hard

Interruptions

Power dynamics

Different skill levels

No time for self