SPA Conference session: Killing me softly - with this pair | |||
| One-line description: | Getting rid of your pair in style | ||
| Session format: | Performative Programming [read about the different session types] | ||
| Abstract: | CONTENTS Pair-programming is one of the key practices in eXtreme Programming. While worshipped by some and booed by others, nice, sensible, politically-correct folks (that is, everyone in this field) will qualify Pair-Programming as "something useful, but not always." During this session, we will focus on these less happy moments – the “not-always” – where the coder would rather not pair-program, while by the most extraordinary coincidence s/he has been assigned the company of a teammate, forcing her/him to share both work- and thinkspace. OBJECTIVE By the means of a totally anti-educational playlet, we hope to act as droll-models and show how to effectively kill any virtuous dynamics that might spur from practicing Pair-Programming. And, by doing so, to help those in desperate need to claim back their peace and loneliness. (META-)OBJECTIVES * To promote Performative Programming as a format * To celebrate the act of programming * To do something not-so-usual in a conference, to shake things up a bit | ||
| Audience background: | Prior experience of failed pair-programming session may help. Some sense of humor, too. | ||
| Benefits of participating: | * To understand why pair-programming sessions sometimes become truly excruciating moments * To learn how to get rid of one's team mates, without having to tell them to frock off * To learn how to drive one's agile coach nuts, without getting noticed * To imagine, guessing by elimination, how to improve one's own pair-programming sessions | ||
| Materials provided: | A pointer to the script in its up-to-date version (currently: https://github.com/ut7/killing-me-softly-with-this-pair/blob/master/English/killingMeSoftlyWithThisPair.md) | ||
| Process: | This session is a playlet, in which actors program. This is meant for the audience to be a cathartic experience of watching coders behaving inappropriately - without having to do it themselves. | ||
| Detailed timetable: | t0: start t0 + 30 minutes: bow … then a 10 minute-long Q&R session | ||
| Outputs: | None. We don't feel responsible for what people will make out of this session. | ||
| History: | This session has been presented at Agile France 2012, Agile Grenoble 2012 (in French) and XP-Days Benelux 2012 (in English). It will be presented at Joy of Coding 2013. | ||
| Presenters | |||
| 1. Emmanuel Gaillot /ut7 |
2. Jonathan Perret /ut7 |
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