Selena and Michael will take you on a roller coaster journey of how to get started and get the most out of pair programming. Live on stage they will switch from conversational overview straight into acting out various highs, lows, do’s and don’ts of pair-programming collaboration. Laughs and tears are guaranteed as the audience connect on the difficulties and ultimately the rewards that can be reaped from teamwork through effective pairing.

Pair-programming, 2 developers writing code collaboratively with 2 keyboards and 1 computer, might feel weird, foreign, or impossible. With the insights from this talk you will take your pairing to a new level.

## Learning Outcome

engage audience to want to try pairing with their co-developers immediately! demonstrate a tool kit of do’s and don’ts on how to get started with pairing and to allow it to be successful demonstrate various anti patterns in pair programming and how to deal with them demonstrate the advantages of pair-programming and what developers should be striving for