Sherlock Holmes and Pairing @Romanian Testing Conference 2014 05 15
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The document discusses pairing in software development. It describes different pairing roles like driver and navigator and provides examples of how Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson exemplified these roles. The driver takes decisions, consults the navigator, and verbalizes actions while the navigator looks ahead, asks questions, and provides feedback without crossing the driver's comfort zone. Pair programming, testing, facilitation, talking and writing are presented as different ways of pairing with potential benefits like faster learning and higher quality products.
Sherlock Holmes and Pairing @Romanian Testing Conference 2014 05 15
- 2. Me Adi Bolboacă Programmer Organizational & Technical Trainer & Coach www.mozaicworks.com
- 3. Pairing. Why. When. Do you pair? Why do you pair? How often? www.mozaicworks.com
- 5. Driver Takes the decisions Consults with the Navigator Focuses on short term actions Verbalizes all the performed actions www.mozaicworks.com
- 6. Navigator Looks ahead for strategy Annoyingly rechecks the facts of the Driver Asks meaningful questions Verbalizes agreement or disagreement Does not cross the Driver's comfort zone www.mozaicworks.com
- 7. Holmes & Watson pairing www.mozaicworks.com
- 10. Watson being a Navigator “If I irritated him by a certain methodical slowness in my mentality, that irritation served only to make his own flamelike intuitions and impressions flash up the more vividly and swiftly” Dr. Watson www.mozaicworks.com
- 11. Watson navigating: Facts The navigator remembers facts to the driver The navigator supports driver's decisions The navigator needs to see options ahead Processing data is hard for navigation www.mozaicworks.com
- 12. Holmes & Watson: Learning “Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.” Sherlock Holmes "I have not lived for years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing." Dr. Watson www.mozaicworks.com
- 13. Holmes & Watson: Recap www.mozaicworks.com
- 14. Holmes & Watson: Recap Drive or Navigate Observe well. Verbalize. Give meaningful suggestions Being a navigator is hard Pairing is learning www.mozaicworks.com
- 15. Some pairing ideas Pair-programming (with testers also) Pair-facilitation Pair-talking Pair-writing (collective text ownership) www.mozaicworks.com
- 17. Pair-programming Can be done anywhere: office, pub, etc Change roles/keyboard very often Outcomes: learning, better products Fastest feedback cycle in Agile Can be difficult www.mozaicworks.com
- 18. Pair-testing Focus on “destoying” the app Find sneaky ways the system might crash Change roles of driver and navigator Outcomes: learning, better tests Can be difficult as well www.mozaicworks.com
- 19. Pair-programming: Navigator Adi tells story of Ron Jeffries being a navigator www.mozaicworks.com
- 20. Pair-facilitation Can be done by anyone Just ask someone to pair when facilitating Outcome: learn better your skills Outcome: be a better listener Outcome: simplify&clarify your explanations www.mozaicworks.com
- 21. Pair-talking Fast feedback on content Outcome: the talk has better content Outcome: learn a lot from your pair Outcome: you learn more from audience www.mozaicworks.com
- 23. Pair-writing Easier to start writing The book can be finished faster Fast feedback on content Learning opportunity from your pair www.mozaicworks.com
- 24. Pairing Did I inspire you to pair? What other ideas for paring do you have? When would you start paring? www.mozaicworks.com
- 25. And the last question Do you ever pair with your CEO? www.mozaicworks.com
- 26. Want to learn more? Read more about pair-programming games on http://blog.adrianbolboaca.ro www.mozaicworks.com
- 27. Thank you! The slides will be available on Slideshare&Twitter Questions? www.mozaicworks.com
- 28. Contact me Unit testing workshop Remote pair-programming TDD workshop Refactoring workshop Legacy code workshop Legacy code retreat Code retreat @adibolb www.mozaicworks.com
- 29. http://www.mozaicworks.com [email protected] @adibolb Extend your mentoring & training capacity Accelerate learning through communities of practice Grow your functional leaders and top talents www.mozaicworks.com