Re: ::scr Extreme Programming's Pair Programming

[David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:44:07AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:

> I also can't believe that any productivity/quality increase
> can justify the doubling of cost that pair programming brings
> in.

XP advocates would, I believe, claim that it doesn't double cost, as you
get more than one person's worth of work out of each pair.  However, I
remain to be convinced that you would get *two* peoples' worth of work
out of the pair.  I imagine that the quality would be substantially
improved, but yeah, not by enough.

I've said before that it seems a bit like a cult to me.  And, like all
whacko cults, religions, methodologies or what have you, it no doubt has
some good things buried in it.  But it is foolish to say that every
single aspect of it is good, or that you need to use every single aspect
of it to see a benefit.

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