Practical Remote Pair Programming
Best practices, tips, and techniques for collaborating productively with distributed development teams
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Practical Remote Pair Programming
Best practices, tips, and techniques for collaborating productively with distributed development teams
About This Book
A practical guide for developers, development teams, and managers to successfully implement remote pair programming techniques and styles that better fit their organization's environment
Key Features
- Implement remote pair programming best practices in your organization to increase productivity in software development teams
- Overcome the challenges in communication while working with distributed teams across the globe
- Explore remote pair programming tools and learn smart ways to use them efficiently
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Develop a structured organizational approach to implementing pair programming and using it effectively
- Understand how pair programming fosters better communication inside and outside the team
- Organize remote pair programming and choose the right style for your organization
- Set up screen sharing, IDE, source control rules, audio, and video for your remote pair programming setup
- Use various pair programming techniques and styles in the context of a remote environment
- Enhance your remote pair programming experience with source control and remote access tools
Who this book is for
This book is for any developer who wants to understand the different practical aspects involved in remote pair programming and adopt them in their existing development teams. If you're a team leader or technical manager, this book will serve as a manual for implementing remote pair programming covering the best resources for you to manage communication and collaboration using pair programming with your team members working remotely in distributed teams.
Frequently asked questions
Information
Section 1: Introduction to Pair Programming
- Chapter 1, Pair Programming and Its Necessity
- Chapter 2, How Can Pair Programming Help?
- Chapter 3, Usual Pair Programming Techniques and Styles
Chapter 1: Pair Programming and Its Necessity
- The history of pair programming
- Elucidating problems in pairs
- Sharpening knowledge with collaboration
- Gaining wisdom
- Managing complexities in complex domains
- Comfort for the future you
- Programming with your CEO
- How does pair programming work?
The history of pair programming
Elucidating problems in pairs
- A junior programmer learning from a senior programmer.
- A new programmer in a team learns from an existing programmer in the team.
- Fresh tasks are assigned to the team, and two people can tackle the problem better and faster.
- A programmer learns new practice (that is, test-driven development, unit testing, and so on).
- How would I benefit from using pair programming?
- How would the team/product benefit from using pair programming?
- Would we learn anything useful for the team by pairing?
- Would pair programming delay a delivery?
- Would pairing on this task be boring or superfluous?
Managing complexity
Table of contents
- Practical Remote Pair Programming
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewer
- Preface
- Section 1: Introduction to Pair Programming
- Chapter 1: Pair Programming and Its Necessity
- Chapter 2: How Can Pair Programming Help?
- Chapter 3: Exploring Pair Programming Techniques and Styles
- Section 2: Remote Pair Programming
- Chapter 4: Using Pair Programming in a Distributed System
- Chapter 5: Remote Pair Programming Setup
- Chapter 6: Remote Pair Programming-Specific Techniques and Styles
- Section 3: Tools to Enhance Remote Pair Programming
- Chapter 7: Video and Audio
- Chapter 8: Source Control Rules
- Chapter 9: Remote Access
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