Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Pair Programming

There is a camp at Finetix that advocates the concept of Pair Programming. I am not convinced, having seen it fail miserably at a former client. However, with a number of people at Finetix having been successful at PP, I am willing to give it another try.

I wonder how much PP has taken hold at CapMarkets companies. Not much, I would think. If you have experience with PP, both positive and negative, I would love to hear it.

All I know is that my programming partner had better use spaces and an indentation level of 2 :-)

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

DrKW uses PP on some projects, as does various other investment banks

Anonymous said...

rather than your partner conforming to your rules, how about you conforming to the team rules! Coding standard, it is one of the core practices of XP. Everyone needs to be prepared to give a little.

marc said...

Certainly....

In fact, we have downloaded the well-known C# coding standards from Phillips Medical Systems and will examine it for fitness. The whole team will need to sign off on a standard.

...I'm learning...