Re: Any advice on remote pairing?

We put our programmers in a room with half as many computers as programmers.  We said, "You could pair program, if you want.  Figure it out."

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 BTW, I __am__ one of those who says you should avoid mandating practices. Some practices can be mandatory, but it should ideally be a team decision not what I call a DOG - Decision of One Guy. Curb your DOGs please! Of course, like you, my preferences are conditioned on my experiences. I've been called on a number of times to fix things up after mandatory practices didn't work and the team rejected them. It's probably 10 times harder than doing it right the first time.


 A second reason not to mandate practices is that it's often a cop-out on the part of a manager. Managers are supposed to mandate __results__ but that's a lot harder to do. I've done a few gigs where I coached a manager through the process of doing that but I'm afraid I got bored with it - I'd rather coach programmers. Somebody else should come along and show managers how to specify results that make adoption of good practices a no-brainer for the team.

 

Charlie

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