{"id":54,"date":"2015-02-22T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-02-22T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T05:39:35","slug":"the-value-of-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"The Value Of Pairing"},"content":{"rendered":"

People often assume pairing means pair programming, but pairing is much more general and powerful than just programming. \u00a0One of the best empirical research papers on this topic has to be Arlo Belshee’s “Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind<\/a><\/em>“.<\/p>\n

The paper is short and well worth the read. \u00a0Follow the citations backwards and look forward to some follow up research by Mitch Lacey: “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing: Seeking Beginner\u2019s Mind<\/a><\/em>“.<\/p>\n

I’ve given talks on these papers numerous times. \u00a0Here is a video from September 2013 summarizing these and other research on this topic<\/a>. \u00a0This is a webcast, so it’s a lot less dynamic than having a live audience. \u00a0At the time this set an attendance record with ~400 people joining from around the world.<\/p>\n

This is another technique that, strictly speaking, isn’t so much about agility as good team collaboration. \u00a0In other words, this is probably applicable in your environment, whatever that may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People often assume pairing means pair programming, but pairing is much more general and powerful than just programming. \u00a0One of the best empirical research papers on this topic has to be Arlo Belshee’s “Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind“. The paper is short and well worth the read. \u00a0Follow the citations backwards and look forward to … Continue reading The Value Of Pairing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.deltacfax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}