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Hi Milton!
My buddy Joe has been doing remote XP-style pairing for years, and keeps a
pretty good blog about it. Lots of good resources here:
http://remotepairprogramming.com/
Are you acting as a PM on the team or an engineer? It'll be a steep bar to
ask others to pair if you're not able to drop in and set the example—doubly
so if you're remote.
Good luck!
JPB
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Michael Hill [email protected]
[extremeprogramming] <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> milton...
>
> i lean in massimo's direction on this.
>
> pairing is one of those things that surprises noobs. it doesn't *sound*
> like a skill, but it is one, and you have to learn it. there *are* natural
> pairs, but a natural skill here is relatively uncommon.
>
> if you're already skilled, then pairing remotely is no big deal: mildly
> annoying, not quite as awesome as pairing face-to-face, but still viable.
> if you're *not* already a skilled pair, what's likely to happen is that
> you'll block on pairing.
>
> i've paired with many noob teams over many years. by way of analogy, let
> me tell you about their "pairing stations". they tend to be, well, laptops
> in cubicles with tables that have the only fat part in a corner, suitable
> for a single individual. they tend to use 4-point fonts. and the second
> person is sitting 3 feet away because of the corner. and -- with the best
> will in the world -- you know what that usually results in? "Never again!
> Pairing is bad. Agile is bad. XP is bad."
>
> a remoting environment can do the same thing.
>
> now don't get me wrong, pairing remotely is fine when you know what you're
> doing.
>
> consider a counter-proposal: bring them together for a couple of months,
> face to face, with serious pairing stations. they can find their
> "pair-legs" together. they can learn what slight changes of voice mean.
> they can learn all the ways pairing can go wrong in addition to the ways
> that it rocks. *then* we go to remoting. i can almost guarantee you better
> results.
>
> cheers,
> geepaw
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