Exploring Synergistic Impact through Adventures in Group Pairing

As agile practitioners, a great deal of our time is focused on having targeted, directed impact. But sometimes we miss opportunities to repurpose our efforts into synergistic, many-pronged effects. Not multitasking/multieffecting, from one piece of effort. This paper will explore this topic, both in theory and in practice, specifically focusing on group pairing as an example of this. We will examine a particular client case study, where a disparate developer team, with minimal pairing and TDD experience, was developed into a highly-productive ldquogelledrdquo team through group pairing, six individuals, one workstation.