Re: Pair Programming

Hi Charlie,

Charlie Poole wrote:


> Bill,
>
> > The discussions have most often focused on the Productivity question,
> e.g.,
> > is productivity higher or lower using PP than solo programming.  I've
not
> > felt comfortable that this was really an issue.  Laurie Williams
research
> > shows a slight drop in productivity, albeit with higher quality output,
> > but as Glen's noted, the drop Williams reported isn't statistically
> > significant.  So that strikes me as, as J. B. put it, a Red Herring,
> > i.e., an argument that's meant to divert attention away from the real
> issue.
>
> Just a side note... most discussions I've had with managers who were
> unaware of XP were not about whether productivity was higher or lower
> but about their presumption that productivity doing pair programming
> is half of solo. I don't have Laurie's data so I can't determine the
> significance of the data in evaluating the hypothesis that programming
> takes twice as long using pairs. However, it seems a fairly convincing
> proof that it isn't the case.

Laurie's thesis can be found at
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~lwilliam/Papers/dissertation.pdf

She's now at North Carolina and has a page with links to an impressive set
of publications at http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/

> On the main issue, that of HR policy, I'll point out again that many
> companies report using pairing successfully in the presence of flextime.
> I suspect that results vary depending on the culture and policies in
> place at a particular company.

I've seen anecdotal reports on the XP list but not published reports from
companies.  Could you point me?

Best regards,
Bill



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