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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

Exploring different communication methods

OK, this is pure psychology, but when we work in a team, we need to communicate well in order to achieve our common team goals. Often, I consider communication one of the most important aspects of working together. Even particular, specific, and rare skills aren't as important as good communication.

Being professional means that you can have work relations with anyone who behaves decently and be able to give feedback to and receive feedback from anyone. The same happens in a pair or in a team.

When programming in a pair, it's not the time to show our ego, brag, shame others with our knowledge, or put pressure on our partners. It is quite the opposite: it's the time to explain, wait for the information to be absorbed, explain again, and then explain again. Be patient and guide your partner in order to make them understand your point of view. This is important. I have seen so many pair programming sessions fail simply because...