Comments on: Standups: Pair stand together http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/11/17/standups-pair-stand-together/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kris Kemper http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/11/17/standups-pair-stand-together/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 Kris Kemper Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:43:49 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=626#comment-1406 Good idea. I've trended towards standing next to my pair for a while since it just felt right, but I have noticed that many other people don't do that. I never thought about suggesting a solution before, though it had occurred to me that it wasn't that effective when people "ditto" too far apart. I think I'll suggest this in the future. Good idea. I’ve trended towards standing next to my pair for a while since it just felt right, but I have noticed that many other people don’t do that. I never thought about suggesting a solution before, though it had occurred to me that it wasn’t that effective when people “ditto” too far apart.

I think I’ll suggest this in the future.

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]]> By: Andy http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/11/17/standups-pair-stand-together/comment-page-1/#comment-1393 Andy Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:21:48 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=626#comment-1393 Another pattern that breaks the 'ditto' issue is to replace "What did you do yesterday?" with "What did you learn yesterday?" So, for example, Pair Person 1 may say "While implementing the blah blah story, I learnt how to use reflection in Hibernate to make immutable domain objects", whereas Pair Person 2 may say "And I learned how to catch exceptions in the JUnit 4 style, as well as write a custom Hamcrest matcher." A side benefit of this is that a person in another pair might have run into a situation where they needed a custom matcher, and now they know who to ask. Another pattern that breaks the ‘ditto’ issue is to replace “What did you do yesterday?” with “What did you learn yesterday?”
So, for example, Pair Person 1 may say “While implementing the blah blah story, I learnt how to use reflection in Hibernate to make immutable domain objects”, whereas Pair Person 2 may say “And I learned how to catch exceptions in the JUnit 4 style, as well as write a custom Hamcrest matcher.”
A side benefit of this is that a person in another pair might have run into a situation where they needed a custom matcher, and now they know who to ask.

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