Most sessions show us how to do various agile practices right. What is sorely lacking is the opportunity to learn how to do the practices wrong. How can we be expected to bring agile into an organization successfully without mastery of that key skill?

Pairing isn’t controversial, done effectively it: * reduces defects (by up to 86%, according to the 2000 University of Utah study), * improves productivity (up to three-fold, according to the 1975 US Army study)

However, learning by doing wrong is actually an effective learning technique, and that’s what you’ll see here.