On Oct 23, 6:36pm, jo walsh wrote:
> There's lots more, I've left out all the stuff on estimating and tracking -
> read the book :-)
One of the most important tenets of XP, IMHO, is working in pairs. One
person types while the other watches. The one who isn't typing tends to
catch all the typos and thinkos that the typist can't see.
The XP book recommends having small, private desks/cubicles with a phone
and network point for a laptop, or a crappy, old computer, just good
enough for reading email. Meanwhile, you put all the fast and sexy
machines out in a shared lab where people are encouraged to work and
hack together.
Simon Matthews and I used to do a lot of hacking together when we were
at college. That was way back in the late 80's and XP was not yet a
glint in anyone's eye, but the principle still held good. Of course,
we only had one crappy computer between us so we kind of stumbled into
working in pairs by accident, but I can vouch for the fact that it can
work very well.
A
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