Re: Any advice on remote pairing?

Greetings,

I was on a few different distributed teams while at Outpace for about 3 
years. I'm not sure what the overall statistics are with respect to 
"very likely," but we built some very effective teams. Granted, we were 
all senior developers with considerable experience, but most of us had 
never worked together before.

The teams we built were some of the most cohesive--and gratifying--I've 
been on. The pairing was definitely an important part of the team 
building, as were a number of other elements.

We also had considerably higher stability than co-located teams, with 
almost no natural attrition in our first 2 years. (That went out the 
window when the business model proved to be a problem.)

Regards,
Jeff
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> Ron,
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> Distribution is an even worse team-building idea.  So bad an idea that 
> it is very likely that the group will effectively never become an 
> team.  So bad an idea that it is much more likely that members of the 
> work group will leave for better opportunities at inconvenient times.