From: "Andy Wardley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10/25/00 2:47:19 PM
> 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.
I think that one of the prereqs for this to work is that the
two people involved need to be pretty evenly matched in skill-set
and experience.
I was forced to do this at QXL and whilst my partner was a bright
person, he knew nothing about Perl, to I had to explain everything
that I did to him in such painful detail that it took at twice
as long to get anything done.
This was a bad thing.
Dave...
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