1. Wednesday, August 15, 12

2. Angela Harms
@angelaharms
Does Pair Programming
Have to Suck?
AngelaHarms.com
myAgileEducation.com
the LeanDog boat, on Lake Erie
Wednesday, August 15, 12

3. Wednesday, August 15, 12

4. Rough structure of this talk
Quick review of why
pairing is a good idea
Exploration into why we avoid pairing
Ways to make pairing not suck
Choose your own adventure
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5. Why pair program?
“Good full-time pair programmers
consistently produce higher-quality
code faster....”
—Jim “Big Tiger” Remsik
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6. This is not a new idea.
“in pairs... progress is faster, we
can work longer without losing
headway, and quality is higher.”
—Ron Jeffries
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8. How pairing helps.
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9. How pairing helps.
It helps us bring up noobs.
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10. How pairing helps.
It helps us bring up noobs.
...helps us share knowledge.
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11. How pairing helps.
It helps us bring up noobs.
...helps us share knowledge.
...makes our code expressive.
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12. How pairing helps.
It helps us bring up noobs.
...helps us share knowledge.
...makes our code expressive.
...reduces errors.
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13. How pairing helps.
It helps us bring up noobs.
...helps us share knowledge.
...makes our code expressive.
...reduces errors.
...creates simpler solutions.
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14. How pairing helps.
It helps us bring up noobs.
...helps us share knowledge.
...makes our code expressive.
...reduces errors.
...creates simpler solutions.
...keeps us focused.
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15. So why don’t we pair?
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16. The key to
good pairing.
“Focus on
the code.”
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17. It takes work.
"Pair programming makes developers work
harder than they've ever worked before in
their lives." — Jim “Big Tiger” Remsik
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18. When you’re pairing
with a newbie.
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19. Pairing with
a Rockstar!
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20. When you need
to work fast.
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21. When you need to focus.
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22. When somebody’s
zoning out?
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23. When you have
code standards.
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24. When you have
code standards.
“For now.”
Give it the best name you can, and move on.
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25. When you have
code standards.
“Flip a coin”
Argue for five minutes,
then flip a coin & let it go.
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26. When you have
code standards.
“Do the wrong thing”
Let the wrongness argue for itself.
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27. When you have
code standards.
“Trust emergence”
These practices work.
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28. “...it really does surprise
people who are new to it with
just how productive it is, and
how much fun.”
—Giles Bowkett
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29. “Charm your team to greatness.”
—GeePawHill
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30. confident
humility
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31. Angela Harms
@angelaharms
Please fill out
the survey
AngelaHarms.com
myAgileEducation.com
the LeanDog boat, on Lake Erie
Wednesday, August 15, 12

32. Please fill out
the survey
@AngelaHarms
AngelaHarms.com
myAgileEducation.com
on the LeanDog boat
Wednesday, August 15, 12