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.
pair programming
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.
I don't know where did you take those numbers from, but ❤️ for the last paragraph.
Reads like internal data.