Re: Any advice on remote pairing?

"Ron Jeffries [email protected] [extremeprogramming]" <[email protected]>
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Steven,

> On Oct 14, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Steven Gordon [email protected] [extremeprogramming] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.


Yes, well … except that ...

Mandating is probably never a really great team-building idea, and …

Pair programming, as marvelous as we think it is, isn’t a proven path to success and in a remote situation, even if it’s as good as we think, may not be close to good enough.

Ron Jeffries
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