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    1. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      What practices are we talking about? 100% pair programming. 100% TDD. One week iterations. Daily pair rotation. Standups every day. Planning meetings and retrospectives once a week. And a fixed 9-6 weekday-only schedule to avoid burnout.

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    2. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      Pivotal took a page directly from the XP (eXtreme Programming) workbook. Their CEO, Rob Mee, had worked with some of the signatories on early agile projects, and had been putting it all into practice continuously since then.

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    3. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      I *loved* working like this. Agile is basically a set of attention hacks for me. For example - when I’m pairing I’m not on Twitter or email - all I’m thinking about is the problem at hand. Devs at Pivotal paired 8 hours every weekday, modulo standups, planning meetings, & retros.

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    4. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      I’d never worked in a way that seemed so likely to produce the _right_ product. That’s the motivator for me - building things that are useful and get used. I’m not motivated by the act of writing code (tedious, error prone) nor by new technology (unless the payoff is clear).

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    5. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      The agile/XP/Pivotal way of working is not without its issues. But the positives were so strong, relative to my previous experience, that it took me 5 years doing full-on agile to even start to see & articulate & connect the problems.

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    6. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      So let’s start with the obvious issues: - Very few people can pair that much. My job was essentially talking for 8 hours a day. - Many people can’t do a 9-6 fixed schedule. Parents, in particular, because no daycare place stays open past 6. This is ultimately why I left Pivotal.

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    7. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      - Many people have motivators that don’t mesh well with this system, including pushing frontiers via more research-y code, being in solo ‘flow,’ & using new technology. - Full-time pairing is hard across time zones. Having everyone in the same time zone is often unrealistic.

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    8. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      That’s the obvious stuff. Most of it can be solved by employing small-a agile, rather than a program like scrum or XP, so that the process adapts to the needs of the team.

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    9. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      The way I usually approach this is to have folks articulate what they’re trying to get out of a practice that’s not working for them. Then we brainstorm other practices that might have the same effect AND work better for that group. I’ll give you a quick example.

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    10. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Apr 30

      When people do pair programming, their goals are usually some subset of these: - focus - avoiding silos - code review - onboarding - cross-training - fewer rabbit holes There are other ways to get all those things.

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats Apr 30
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      Sometimes it's just "this problem needs a bigger brain than I have in my head" or "I can see that by myself I'm blinded by bias and need some help to think through the problem", but those situations are not the majority of software dev.

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