Re: Re: "Winning" the pair programming discussion

banshee858 wrote:
>>>One complaint is pair programming is inefficent since you have 
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> less 
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>>>parallel task being worked on.  Three pairs can cannot not work 
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> on as 
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>>>many tasks in a single day as 6 programmers.
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>>Note that this is far from obvious. Consider whether two people 
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> working
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>>together can carry more or fewer 200 pound bags of cement than the 
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> same two
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>>working alone.
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> 
> This is a VERY good metaphor.  I could also imagine that two people 
> carrying cement all day might devise a simple tool or machine to help 
> carry more faster.  I single person may not think of this.

Furthering this metaphor, you don't need to have both single workers 
*independently* develop the time-saving tool.  In solo software 
development, this is often the case as the word of the time-saving tool 
has no effective means to spread.

  - George


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