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Practical Remote Pair Programming

By : Adrian Bolboacă
Book Image

Practical Remote Pair Programming

By: Adrian Bolboacă

Overview of this book

Remote pair programming takes pair programming practices to the next level by allowing you and your team members to work effectively in distributed teams. This helps ensure that you continuously improve code quality, share equal ownership of the code, facilitate knowledge sharing, and reduce bugs in your code. If you want to adopt remote pair programming within your development team, this book is for you. Practical Remote Pair Programming takes you through various techniques and best practices for working with the wide variety of tools available for remote pair programming. You'll understand the significance of pair programming and how it can help improve communication within your team. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with different remote pair programming strategies and find out how to choose the most suitable style for your team and organization. The book will take you through the process of setting up video and audio tools, screen sharing tools, and the integrated development environment (IDE) for your remote pair programming setup. You'll also be able to enhance your remote pair programming experience with source control and remote access tools. By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence to drive the change of embracing remote pair programming in your organization and guide your peers to improve productivity while working remotely.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Pair Programming
5
Section 2: Remote Pair Programming
9
Section 3: Tools to Enhance Remote Pair Programming

Summary

In this chapter, we covered some extras for video, audio, and speaking in a remote context. These ideas will help you in any remote situation, and most of them will even help your in-person work. I can tell you that I have learned these from many smart people and great presenters during my life, and using each of them adds one more drop of professionalism to any person's life.

Throughout this chapter, you learned how to improve your video by looking your audience in the eye, using backgrounds to change the scenery, and also how to use your voice in an efficient way. You looked at how to keep an appropriate distance from your microphone, how to perform a soundcheck, and how to stop delivering strong, unwanted sounds on the other side of the line. You then learned how important it is to warm up your voice, as well as how to use the appropriate vocabulary and your voice so that you can have a nice, simple conversation with your partner.

The next chapter will provide...