Re: Pair Programming

On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 3:55:55 PM, J. B. Rainsberger wrote:

>>To look at this another way, pair-programming can at times, and more so
>>for some people than others, be quite intense and tiring. We don't want to
>>pair for 8 hours every day. Time alone to think is important.

> I certainly couldn't pair eight hours every day. I assumed that the PP problem
> was being considered in the context of not being able to pair even for (say)
> four hours every day. An interesting question: how little pairing is too
> little, in hours? I'll set the bar at about six.

> Notice that that's not six solid hours of work, but a six-hour window during
> which mostly pairing goes on.

> I think that having a number in mind makes it easier to understand one aspect
> of commitment we require a would-be XP organization to agree to; thereby
> identifying yet one more area where we will be pressed for answers.

How many hours a day can one write production code?

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Adapt, improvise, overcome. 
  --Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway (Heartbreak Ridge)



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