extreme programming?

[david nicol]

Mike Coleman wrote:
> 
> pair programming strikes me as a bit nutty.

I disagree.  It strikes me as a sound cat-herding management practice:
Not only do you get the programmers focussed on their work better,
but each in the pair becomes the other's drop-dead replacement.

If you can afford it, of course.

One risk is that the programmers will divide their assigned labor
so they don't have to bother with communicating with each other;
you'd need to be operating somewhere with an abundance of talent 
to have enough people to assign them into pairs.

I came very close to looking up the place discussed in the article
and sending them a resume :)

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