Opinions on Pair Programming?
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Topic: Opinions on Pair Programming?
Posted By: Mohit
Subject: Opinions on Pair Programming?
Date Posted: 30Apr2007 at 2:26am
My organization is running a pilot project using pair programming so we
can learn more about it and to figure out if it would be a good fit for
our organization. The developers so far have mostly praises for the
practice, and as a ScrumMaster, I've seen benefits that range from
lower issue counts to the ability to continue on when we loose one
developer due to a family emergency (I know, that's not following the
pure pair programming practice of if one member of the team is gone,
the other member does something else until they return, but we still
had value from the practice since the remaining team member knew what
needed to be done and could carry on.).
Our product manager is not so sold on pair programming. He sees it as a
loss of productivity, since we have 2 developers now working on the
same set of code. He's not sure that it will help reduce testing time
(since there should be fewer issues), and while the theory of reduced
maintenance (because of fewer issues released in production) sounds
nice….he's worried about the here and now. We've only been in this
pilot for 7 weeks….so it hasn't been very long.
Thus, I'm interested in hearing any opinions and/or experiences the
forum may have had with pair programming. What pros and cons did you
experience? Any words of wisdom in dealing with a product manager who
may not know enough of the practice to fully understand the hoped for
benefit….and does not have the patience to find out?
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