Working practice
Pair programming
Two engineers working on the same problem at the same time.
Definition
A practice where two people work through a task together, one writing and one thinking ahead, swapping regularly. Remotely it runs over a shared editor or screen share, and works well in blocks of an hour or two rather than whole days.
Why it matters
Its highest-value use in outsourced work is onboarding, where it collapses weeks of guessing into a few sessions. Judged purely as output per hour it looks expensive, which is why it gets cut first. Budget it explicitly as ramp cost rather than defending it as a productivity measure.
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Code review
Another engineer reading a change before it ships.
Read the definition ›Onboarding ramp
The time before a new person is fully productive.
Read the definition ›Knowledge transfer
Deliberately moving what one person knows into the team.
Read the definition ›Working agreement
A short written set of rules a team commits to about how it works.
Read the definition ›Next step
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