Agile Coaching Camp wrapup
I approached my second (their third) day of #ACCUS after a full night's sleep. The evening social time was great, because it involved some fine people. I had two sessions, one each in the first and last timeslots of the day. Pairing Styles The first was a little workshop to identify and evaluate pairing styles. I was there to collect data primarily, and I did. We mapped the styles I had identified and added to them. The best part was the conversation among the attendees as we tried to evaluate them. The emergent thesis is that styles are not inherently good or bad, but that they reveal the relationship of the partners. All styles could be energizing, or could be draining, depending primarily on: The involvement they bring to the session The degree to which they both focus on the code instead of each other The degree to which each recognizes the contribution of the other The Coaching Oracle Deck This idea was based on Brian Eno's famous Oblique Strategies concept...