Went to a Java developer talk once, guy had many years in it. Said he found he could not do pair programming. Said when it's experienced with less experienced it was just a teaching-learning pairing, and he told his clients that's a waste of time.
Two experienced guys pairing, though, he has found doesn't help much if at all. Some experienced programmers have their styles and that's that. In one rarity, thank God, I heard of one who was on a team and kept changing another programmer's code to his own style..
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Looking for Agile Experience
On 10/23/2013 9:11 AM, Richard Schoen wrote:
There appear to be shades of Agile, so we've picked up the bits that
seemed to make sense such as requirements before coding, but I don't
believe we are doing standups, sprints or pair programming.
IMO, the parts of agile that would benefit ANY team (regardless of how agile they go) are sprints and standups.
Pair programming, especially for experienced people, would only result in injury and death (and I'm only half kidding there).
david
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