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Coding Tour – Stop Three – Ruby, Rails and HAML with Rachel at Makers Academy

  Thursday 30th November. Spitalfields, London, England. I’m off to pair program for two days with my old friend Rachel … More

Coding Tour – Stop Two – JavaScript & Event Sourcing at Dev Camp Belgium with the Cucumber Team

Tuesday 14th November. London St Pancras. I’m about to hop on the Eurostar with two members of the Cucumber team … More

Coding Tour – Stop One – React.js with Clare Sudbery at Thoughtworks

Thursday 19th October. Manchester, England. It’s raining. I’m on my way to meet up with Clare Sudbery at the brand … More

What the heck is a Coding Tour anyway?

First some background: I am a 47 year old mother of three. I graduated with a 1st class honours degree … More

Desirable Pair Programming Behaviours – Tag team

I have distilled my ethnographic research on pair programming into a number of observed desirable and un-desirable pair programming behaviours*. … More

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Undesirable pair programming behaviours – The Thrasher and The Divider

This post details behaviours* that were observed during my pair programming studies and were considered to be either undesirable when … More

Pair programming, Thrasher, Undesirable behaviours

An alternative take on the ‘Driver’ and ‘Navigator’ roles in pair programming.

Our findings so far suggest that experienced pair programmers under-rate their experience. They also cast some doubt on previous claims … More

So what do the Driver and Navigator really do?

If we look at popular descriptions of pair programming, we don’t have to search very far to come across ideas … More

driver, navigator, Pair programming

So how much do pair programmers really collaborate?

There are many different ways that pairs may work together. I particularly like the distinction made between Collaboration and Cooperation. … More

“It’s for the next person that works on this” and other lies about lists

Pair programmers often make lists, or at least the pairs I studied did. Mostly these lists were produced as an … More

External representations, lists, Pair programming

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