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Leveling communication

Leveling communication

From the course: Agile Software Development: Pair and Mob Programming

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Leveling communication

- [Instructor] Now earlier in this course I talked a little bit about leveling, and you may remember that I talked about when you are working in a pair or mob you want to consider for the skills that you're working on in the particular moment, the people who are part of the collaboration. What is their level of particular skill? And this is going to matter in the way that you communicate, whether mob or pair. So what are some of the situations that I commonly see? You can see in this grid here, let's take something that's really common first. In a pair, you have a beginner and you have an advanced person. So you have a senior developer and they're bringing on maybe a new developer, new to the language. The typical kind of challenge I see in this dynamic is balance and pace. The advanced developer is very experienced. It's old hat to them. They maybe have taught other beginners, and so they're just going really, really fast because it's easy and effortless. The beginner, on the other…

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