Re: Any advice on remote pairing?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:14 PM, George Dinwiddie [email protected]
[extremeprogramming] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Steven,
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> On 10/14/16 5:44 PM, Steven Gordon [email protected]
> [extremeprogramming] wrote:
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> > These examples of a team deciding for themselves whether and when to
> > pair are all co-located.
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> > The original question is about remote pairing for a fully distributed
> > team. I can see mandating pairing (as well as the other XP practices)
> > as a prerequisite for taking the risk of investing in a fully
> > distributed team.
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> I would rather see making it easy to pair at will, and easy to find
> others ready to pair at the moment. Mandating pairing will especially
> backfire in remote work when the propagation delay is getting in the
> way. Nobody likes to be told to do something that's preventing them from
> getting their work done.
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> - George
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> How would you make pairing "easy" for a fully distributed team?



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