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Micro-Pairing

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Transcript

  1. Micro-Pairing (why arguing while you code is fun and productive)

    Brad Wilson http://bradwilson.typepad.com/ Peter Provost http://www.peterprovost.org/ Mitch Lacey http://www.mitchlacey.com/ Microsoft Corporation

  2. Teams today are adopting agile at a rapid rate

  3. Developers want to make the best use of their coding

    time

  4. Traditional pairing limits the effectiveness of the players

  5. Successful pair development produces better designs

  6. Change your pairing style to be a more effective, happier

    developer

  7. Pair Programming

  8. Two developers at one computer

  9. The driver is the tactician

  10. The observer is the strategist

  11. Test Driven Design

  12. None

  13. Do just enough to make the test pass

  14. Improve the design

  15. Do It Together

  16. Pass the keyboard at every TDD step

  17. Negotiate over your disagreements

  18. Have fun

  19. Can you learn to become a more effective pair in

    just 90 minutes?

  20. Developers become bored and ineffective with traditional pair-programming

  21. Adjust your style to increase productivity, design quality, and fun

  22. Become a more effective developer with the game

  23. The Pairing Game Bringing fun to agile software development