Pair programming experiments.

These past few weeks my team has tried a number of cross skilling, pair programming and knowledge transfer experiments.

• Pairing with principal engineers on complex challenges.
• Coding with QA.
• Reducing the scope of sprints to a single goal rather than creating work for each skill set.
• Aggressive full stack pairing.

The impact has been very positive:

• Increased happiness and empathy.
• Radical solution-ing.
• Massive knowledge sharing and accelerated learning.
• Earlier defect detection.
• Increased velocity.
• Debt tech pay off.
• Engineering empathy.

I’d love to hear about other experiments people have been trying!