Not really. At least on my teams where everybody has very open communication, people are more than willing to be critical.
When you see the change from people adamantly not wanting to pair, then a couple of months later asking people to pair totally unprompted it's easier to read.
The way I sell pairing is just this:
1. I want everybody to be able to take vacation without the phone ringing.
2. If there's a part of the system that only you are familiar with, your phone is probably going to ring when you're on vacation.
3. Have somebody else on the team do a couple of stories/tasks on that part of the system while you pair with them for cross training to ensure that your vacations are true vacations.
Vacation Oriented Pairing :-)
That may only work in an environment where we go out of our way to try to prevent people from overworking though. Might not work everywhere.
When you see the change from people adamantly not wanting to pair, then a couple of months later asking people to pair totally unprompted it's easier to read.
The way I sell pairing is just this:
1. I want everybody to be able to take vacation without the phone ringing.
2. If there's a part of the system that only you are familiar with, your phone is probably going to ring when you're on vacation.
3. Have somebody else on the team do a couple of stories/tasks on that part of the system while you pair with them for cross training to ensure that your vacations are true vacations.
Vacation Oriented Pairing :-)
That may only work in an environment where we go out of our way to try to prevent people from overworking though. Might not work everywhere.