Practical Remote Pair Programming

Best practices, tips, and techniques for collaborating productively with distributed development teams

Adrian Bolboacă

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Practical Remote Pair Programming

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To all the passionate software people out there: have fun coding!

– Adrian Bolboacă

Contributors

About the author

Adrian Bolboacă has international experience of more than 15 years in product and software development in small and large companies, having served customers from various European countries. He is an experienced trainer; he likes to teach passionate people from dynamic companies to exceed their potential by challenging their current activity model for better collaboration, performance, and satisfaction. Adrian has trained and coached individuals and teams on both the technical and organizational sides on topics such as architecture and software design, agile and lean transformations, visual management, continuous improvement, Scrum, Kanban, unit testing, TDD, pair-programming, clean code, rescuing legacy code, and much more.

I want to thank the Software Development Gang for their constant support and inspiration, especially Code Cop for making this book happen. Many thanks to my Mozaic Works colleagues who were patient while I was focusing on writing the book, and gave me the necessary slack. And, of course, many thanks to my many remote pair programming partners, of whom there are way too many to mention, and from whom I have learned all the aspects presented in this book.

About the reviewer

Steve Nield is a full-stack engineer and technical lead with 15 years' experience in building high-availability, low-latency web applications across a broad range of projects and company profiles. Steve started his career at Microsoft as an intern before becoming a contractor. Throughout his career, Steve has led large-scale product development and transformation projects with a proven track-record of introducing and driving the adoption of best practices through mentoring. He is currently focused on improving deployment practices through the introduction of CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and infrastructure as code; he believes that every engineer should be able to autonomously deploy safely and frequently to production.