Re: [extremeprogramming] Pairing styles

I introduce about 15 to 20 teams a year to agile development in courses in CS at Northwestern.  Basic format: teams of 4 to 6, of mixed skills, not previously familiar with each other. Two 5-week projects, 1 week iterations. Second project is with external clients, often from a course on being an agile client I give.

I discovered about 6 years back that swarming first worked great, way better than pairing first. It was fun, it was bonding,  and it fit my requirement that they get a thin but valuable user-testable demo up and running in a week. Some teams continue to swarm for the rest of the quarter. Others have time issues, but work in smaller groups, often pairs, as the next best thing. A few try solo coding, and most of those report it causes too many problems for anything other than trivial code updates.

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