On Jul 01, 2010, at 8:14 am, doug livesey wrote: > Actually, and in all seriousness, conversations like this really hit home how > potentially devastatingly effective pair-programming could be. > Does anyone on the list work that way?
I do my best to avoid writing production code unpaired. I've got two people working with me now. One comes to my office and pairs on-site, the other I pair remotely with over iChat. (Works a lot better than you might think.) Last week we had an extra person (Marc Johnson) in as a one-off, so we had two pairs. I used this as an excuse to try promiscuous pairing* as described by Arlo Belshee[1], which worked really well. The pace was a bit insane though. Me, Marc and my client will be talking about it at GIST Mag** (was Geekup Sheffield) this month[2] if anyone wants to come down and find out more. (Or you could ask me here, but then you don't get the chance to drink beer and go for a curry.) Cheers Ash * sniggering will get you lines ** and more lines [1] http://mitchlacey.com/docs/XR4PromiscuousPairingandBeginnersMind.pdf [2] http://thegisthub.net/2010/07/01/events/the-gist-magazine-v1-2/ -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
