Pairing: a guide to fruitful collaboration 🍓🍑🍐

Despite general consensus that pairing is good, the desire to pair doesn’t come with instructions. Come to this talk to learn how to pair with someone more experienced, how (and why) to pair with your peers, and how to pair productively with someone less experienced. (Hint: productivity isn’t about the speed of new features.) Pairing is a fantastic tool for your professional toolbox: let’s design, discuss, refine, and refactor, together.

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1. Pairing a guide for fruitful collaboration
2. André Arko @indirect
3. therubyway.io
7. what is pairing
9. two developers with one machine
10. two developers solving problems
11. two developers collaborating
12. two developers communicating
13. Pairing Pitfalls % showing off infinite bikesheds constant judgement
14. Pairing Pitfalls % showing off infinite bikesheds constant judgement
15. Pairing Pitfalls
16. Pairing needs trust
17. Pairing needs communication
18. Pairing needs cooperation
19. Pairing needs consent
20. intentionally create your environment
21. keep everyone balanced
22. ready? don’t start coding.
23. reach for shared understanding
24. build clear expectations
25. consider testing together
26. do not! “here, let me do this really quickly myself”
27. instead stay on the same page
28. the key is consent and clear expectations
29. pairing while less experienced
30. you aren’t an unproductive burden
31. you share half of the control
32. your experience is unique and valuable
33. your ideas are valid and worthwhile
34. ask questions about everything
35. remember they’re just another person
36. more experienced pairing while
37. gatekeeping elitism reject
38. block your bad habits do what’s needed to
39. to level up your skills take this chance
40. a relationship programming is
41. any questions? Thanks!
42. therubyway.io andre@arko.net @indirect bundler.io rubytogether.org
43. therubyway.io andre@arko.net @indirect bundler.io rubytogether.org
44. therubyway.io andre@arko.net @indirect bundler.io rubytogether.org