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Further Together: Curated Pairing Culture @Pivotal Neha Batra @nerdneha #furtherpairingtogether #qconsf Goals 1. Failed Attempts 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs 3. Pair Programming & You 4. Good times 5. War Stories 6. Lessons Learned

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Further Together: Curated Pairing Culture @Pivotal

Neha Batra @nerdneha #furtherpairingtogether #qconsf

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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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Why do I care about pairing & culture?

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Why do I care about pairing & culture?

  • Inclusion
  • Teamwork
  • Learning
  • Challenging ourselves
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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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Failed Attempts

  • Pairing 1 hr per week, ½ day per week
  • Still have your own work to get done
  • No way to capture contributions or credit the pair
  • Pair didn’t want to pair with you
  • It’s faster by yourself
  • Silent treatment
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Pair Programming is hard

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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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Cultural Tenets at Pivotal

Do what works Do the right thing Be kind

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Pivotal Labs: Setup

Client Pivotal

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Pivotal Labs: Setup

Team

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What’s particularly unique about our culture

Pivots are well-equipped and willing to:

  • Be vulnerable
  • Be fearless
  • Go slower in the short term for long term gain
  • Trust that others will do the right thing
  • Eliminate code and emotional silos
  • Do the right thing for the team
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How did we build this culture?

  • TDD
  • Set Schedule
  • Retros & Feedback loops
  • Well-written stories
  • Fewer meetings
  • Hiring for good pairs
  • CI & CD
  • Taking our Mission seriously
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The big picture at Pivotal Labs

Pairadise

Test Driven Development

Pairadise

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TDD & Pairing It’s easier to agree on a test than it is to agree

  • n an implementation
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TDD + Pairing allows for balance and avoids fights

Easier to agree on a test Go with the simplest implementation Red, Green, Refactor No pull requests/judgement day!

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The big picture at Pivotal Labs

Pairadise

Test Driven Development Set Schedule

Pairadise

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Weekly schedule = Weekly iterations & feedback

Alignment Planning Execution Feedback

Standups Pre-IPM IPM (WORK) Pre-CL CL Retros

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The big picture at Pivotal Labs

Pairadise

Test Driven Development Set Schedule Retros & Feedback

Pairadise

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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better”

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Retrospectives -- circulates feedback

Action Items

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Retrospectives -- circulates feedback

Action Items Tech Retros Parking Lot

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Daily Retros circulate feedback faster

How do you think it went? I was concerned about ______, did you feel that way? Should we try something new next time?

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The big picture at Pivotal Labs

Pairadise

Test Driven Development Retros & Feedback Concise, independent, prioritized stories

Pairadise

Set Schedule

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The big picture at Pivotal Labs

Pairadise

Test Driven Development Set Schedule Retros & Feedback Few Meetings Concise, independent, prioritized stories

Pairadise

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“I love spending all my time in meetings”

  • No one ever
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“People are happiest when people are being productive”

  • Rob Mee
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Weekly schedule = Weekly iterations & feedback

Alignment Planning Execution Feedback

Standups Pre-IPM IPM (WORK) Pre-CL CL Retros

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Weekly schedule = Weekly iterations & feedback

Alignment Planning Execution Feedback

Standups Pre-IPM IPM (WORK) Pre-CL CL Retros

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Talk in person / record in writing = fewer meetings

Walk over to PM Cross functional pairing: Pair with designer or PM Schedule check-in Appear.in/Dedicated video Call - Batphone

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The big picture at Pivotal Labs

Pairadise

Test Driven Development Set Schedule Retros & Feedback Few Meetings Concise, independent, prioritized stories CI & CD Hiring for good pairs

Pairadise

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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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  • Isolated team
  • Few interruptions/meetings
  • Buy-in to execute on priorities
  • PM/Design resources available

Best pairing conditions?

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  • Select team with “all hands on deck” feature

How to get buy-in

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Getting buy-in for Pairing: Convince them to “experiment” for JUST ONE WEEK

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  • Select team with “all hands on deck” feature
  • Introduce concept as an experiment
  • Loop in product owner frequently
  • Release early, often, and iterate

How to get buy-in

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“I’m exhausted, talking so much is tiring” “Won’t the team move half as fast?” “I don’t get much value out of it” “[X activity] isn’t pair worthy” “I don’t like the inflexible schedule” “I’m always being watched” “Hard to work with someone when you disagree” “It’s the blind leading the blind”

  • Prepair. Know the opposition
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  • 1 computer, 2 monitors, 2 mice, 2 keyboards
  • Mirror screens
  • Increase your font
  • Git duet-commit
  • Good IDE
  • Keycastr to see shortcut keystrokes

Pairing setup hardware/software

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Remote pairing: GET GOOD HARDWARE

  • Good Headphones
  • Good Internet connection
  • Set schedule, procedures, and expectations
  • More explicit back & forth (ex: ping pong pairing)
  • Check-in more
  • Take time to build rapport
  • Try for some in-person pairing at the beginning IF possible
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  • Take turns - try ping-pong pairing or Timeout
  • Take breaks -

○ Bonding: ping pong, cards (set) ○ Time apart: catch up on emails/personal life

  • Expairiment - mobbing
  • Keep an open mind

The intangibles of Pairing

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Pairing is like making a new friend: It’s going to be awkward

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Pairing is like making a new friend: It’s going to be awkward so give it some time

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Imbalanced Levels in Pairing

For the more experienced pair. You want to pair because:

  • Fewer repeated questions
  • Freeing you up for more complex work
  • You won’t be called up on vacation

For the less experienced pair. You want to pair because:

  • Learn more/faster
  • Get reasoning behind methods & business context
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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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  • Productivity
  • Code Quality
  • Project Success

○ Easy temperature on team ○ Easy to help/understand what’s going on

  • Happiness
  • Skill growth/sharing
  • Career Success

Good pairing looks like...

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  • Built project in Go but don’t know Go
  • Learned React
  • Enable clients to transition to software engineer roles
  • Rapid prototyping-user testing

Accomplishments because of Pairing culture

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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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Tool chest to prevent & mitigate issues as they come up

  • SWOT Analysis: what is your team’s combined profile?
  • Personal Goals: what do we each want out of the project?
  • Inception
  • Set schedule/cadence
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Tool chest to prevent & mitigate issues as they come up

  • SWOT Analysis: what is your team’s combined profile?
  • Personal Goals: what do we each want out of the project?
  • Inception
  • Set schedule/cadence
  • Provide feedback opportunities at multiple levels
  • Provide “safe haven” to get work done free from scope changes
  • Have a way to collect concerns and dedicated time to discuss them
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Tool chest to prevent & mitigate issues as they come up

  • SWOT Analysis: what is your team’s combined profile?
  • Personal Goals: what do we each want out of the project?
  • Inception
  • Set schedule/cadence
  • Provide feedback opportunities at multiple levels
  • Provide “safe haven” to get work done free from scope changes
  • Have a way to collect concerns and dedicated time to discuss them
  • Talk in person
  • Write down conversation/context
  • Find a way to align first (ex: TDD + Pairing or discussing high-level)
  • Daily retros
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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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What was surprising about pairing after 1 year

Pair Programming is like making friends, it takes time You will need an extra hour or more of sleep per night Have patience with yourself and others You can code/ramp up with anything now

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Why does Pair Programming stick at Pivotal?

  • Enablement-focused

○ Nature of our projects

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Why does Pair Programming stick at Pivotal?

  • Enablement-focused

○ Nature of our projects

  • Shared-accountability

○ Same backlog ○ IPMs point stories but emphasis on low volatility, not high velocity ○ No silos

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Why does Pair Programming stick at Pivotal?

  • Enablement-focused

○ Nature of our projects

  • Shared-accountability

○ Same backlog ○ IPMs point stories but emphasis on low volatility, not high velocity ○ No silos

  • Empowered coworkers

○ Setting the tone during Onboarding, Inception, and through Management ○ No singling out (always as pairs that change daily) ○ “No question is stupid” ○ Empathetic coworkers

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Cultural Transformation: A few good apples can transform the whole barrel

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Goals

  • 1. Failed Attempts
  • 2. Pairing @ Pivotal Labs
  • 3. Pair Programming & You
  • 4. Good times
  • 5. War Stories
  • 6. Lessons Learned
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@nerdneha #furtherpairingtogether #qconsf Extreme Programming Explained: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321278658/extremeprogrammi Pairing is more productive than soloing: http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/ieeeSoftware.PDF Stanford Study on pairing, when and why it works: http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2005/pairs/PairProgramming-WhenWhy.pdf Remote Pairing: Collaborative Tools for Distributed Development is a book by Joe Kutner https://pragprog.com/book/jkrp/remote-pairing Pair programming productivity: Novice–novice vs. expert–expert http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/305j/pair-hcs-2006.pdf The effectiveness of pair programming: A meta-analysis http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584909000123 Evaluating Pair Programming with Respect to System Complexity and Programmer Expertise http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=4052584

Resources on Pairing (blog: nerdneha.tumblr.com)

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Further Together: Curated Pairing Culture @Pivotal

Neha Batra @nerdneha #furtherpairingtogether #qconsf