Practical Remote Pair Programming

<Practical Remote Pair Programming> practical guide for developers, development teams, and managers to successfully implement remote pair programming techniques and styles that better fit their organization's environment

▶Book Description
Remote pair programming takes pair programming practices to the next level by allowing you and your team members to work effectively in distributed teams. This helps ensure that you continuously improve code quality, share equal ownership of the code, facilitate knowledge sharing, and reduce bugs in your code. If you want to adopt remote pair programming within your development team, this book is for you.

Practical Remote Pair Programming takes you through various techniques and best practices for working with the wide variety of tools available for remote pair programming. You'll understand the significance of pair programming and how it can help improve communication within your team. As you advance, you'll get to grips with different remote pair programming strategies and find out how to choose the most suitable style for your team and organization. The book will take you through the process of setting up video and audio tools, screen sharing tools, and the integrated development environment (IDE) for your remote pair programming setup. You'll also be able to enhance your remote pair programming experience with source control and remote access tools.

By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence to drive the change of embracing remote pair programming in your organization and guide your peers to improve productivity while working remotely.

▶What You Will Learn
-Develop a structured organizational approach to implementing pair programming and using it effectively
-Understand how pair programming fosters better communication inside and outside the team
-Organize remote pair programming and choose the right style for your organization
-Set up screen sharing, IDE, source control rules, audio, and video for your remote pair programming setup
-Use various pair programming techniques and styles in the context of a remote environment
-Enhance your remote pair programming experience with source control and remote access tools

▶Key Features
-Implement remote pair programming best practices in your organization to increase productivity in software development teams
-Overcome the challenges in communication while working with distributed teams across the globe
-Explore remote pair programming tools and learn smart ways to use them efficiently

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for any developer who wants to understand the different practical aspects involved in remote pair programming and adopt them in their existing development teams. If you're a team leader or technical manager, this book will serve as a manual for implementing remote pair programming covering the best resources for you to manage communication and collaboration using pair programming with your team members working remotely in distributed teams.

▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Pair Programming and Its Necessity, helps you find out why we need pair programming and how it can be used.

- Chapter 2, How Can Pair Programming Help?, helps you master how to boost learning and create a pleasant environment for your team with pair programming.

- Chapter 3, Usual Pair Programming Techniques and Styles, checks what the appropriate collaboration technique and style for your team is by using pair programming.

- Chapter 4, Using Pair Programming in a Distributed System, helps you learn how to boost your distributed team's productivity by using pair programming.

- Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup, covers getting the gear and setting things up for real professional remote pair programming.

- Chapter 6, Remote Pair Programming Specific Techniques and Styles, checks how you can adapt your remote work with specific techniques and styles, adapted for remote pair programming.

- Chapter 7, Voice and Audio, discusses how when we work remotely, voice and audio are very important, and you will learn how to use them like a pro in this chapter.

- Chapter 8, Source Control, covers using source control as part of a programmer's job, and you will learn some general good practices and some tweaks for remote pair programming in this chapter.

- Chapter 9, Remote Access, looks at how we cannot have remote pair programming without remote access, and you will learn how to use it well and safely here.