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by Simon Baker.
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We added rolling ownership to our pair-programming back in April 2008 and we've been using it since.
Rolling ownership enables as many people as possible to get involved in delivering every story. When a new story is started, someone volunteers to own it and another person volunteers to pair in. They work on the story until lunchtime. After lunch, the pairs swap. For each story in progress, the owner moves off the story passing ownership to his morning partner and a new volunteer steps in to pair. This rolling effect allows tacit knowledge of the story to be retained across pair-swaps. When each person owns a story they add their initials to the right-hand side of the card. Repeated everyday, most, if not all, of the team play a part in delivering each story. We've found that rolling ownership facilitates shared learning and decision-making, helps spread knowledge of the product around the team, and the pair-swaps and shifting ownership gets people really communicating.
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