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Alan Solitar

pair programming

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Jeff Dickey

Strongly disagree. (15+ years small-a agile experience here.)

The last shop I was with moved to pair programming after three different pilot groups showed 20-30% improvement in raw productivity and 80-90% reduction of bugs making it to production compared to solo ninjitsu.

It takes a different, less ego-driven way of thinking, but that's one of the main arguments for it. The shop I'm with now doesn't do that simply because a politically-protected "dev" refuses to do that, and we're years behind schedule. Not pairing isn't the only reason for that, but it's a major contributor.

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Daniel

I don't know where did you take those numbers from, but ❤️ for the last paragraph.

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Elliot Derhay

Reads like internal data.