Re: Agile Development, Anyone?

Very True. I did this in college and my partner and I turned out our code
much faster than the guys trying to fly solo. Plus, you drive each other.
When one gets stuck, the other usually has the answer. And if not, you
have someone to work through it with.


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Bryce Martin
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I did not believe in pair programming until I tried it awhile back. It
was really an accident that we wound up doing it but we both found the
process to be fun, much faster, and more accurate with the unit
testing. If you let yourself really try it, it might surprise you about
how well it works. That does require the developers to have a good
working relationship that is based on mutual respect, but not
necessarily skill levels.

Jim Oberholtzer
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Agile Technology Architects


On 8/24/2011 4:46 PM, Sam_L wrote:

Why do I ask?

I've been curious about it and it still seems to be around, despite some
very anti articles and a degree of skepticism. Aldon has moved to it
and has been sending me e-mail about it. And agile*kind of* fits our
current "no methodology" , no design documents, little documentation
approach.

Personally, the thought of paired programming astounds me--I don't think
quickly enough for that approach. And the concept of creating test
scripts first would be a hard sell. And I'm not sure that all projects
are suited to be implemented in little bits, especially interactive
applications.

So I wondered what other experience y'all had, so I can decide if I want
to invest money and time to read a book on the subject.

Sam


On 8/23/2011 11:13 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

From: Sam_L
Is anyone using the Agile Development methodology? Successfully?

Why do you ask?

-Nathan