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Re: Agile Development, Anyone?

On 8/29/2011 10:46 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:
And some of it frankly makes me shudder. Pair programming in particular
is a concept that could be as damaging as it is helpful. Two people
doing one job? Just to break even you have to finish the job in half
the clock time with the same number of errors. Fewer errors is
certainly good, but enough to make up for an additional worker? I doubt
you get that sort of improvement for your best developers.

Pair programming is kind of like RAID 1 ... you get maximum quality and double the cost.

I suspect you would also chew through developers like an iPhone's at an Apple store on release day.

I don't think I could do pair programming ... I don't mind having my code critiqued ... but not every line that I type as I type it.

Good thing that Pair programming isn't a required part of Agile.

david


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