Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-21 Thread Piers Cawley
"Dean S Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -Original Message- > From: Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I did a little pair programming at emap - I probably wasn't doing it > right > >tho'. even so we did get thru the hard bits quicker and could split > up to > >do the easy st

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-21 Thread Piers Cawley
David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:24:24AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: > > > Now, I freely admit that I have partaken of the Extreme Programming > > Kool-Aid, and dammit I want to do it. > > I want to try it too. I'm not convinced by all of it - pair program

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: > Leon, are you acting as scribe? Yes. Don't expect a masterpiece though. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Bro

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
"Dean S Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -Original Message- > From: Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >I did a little pair programming at emap - I probably wasn't doing it > right > >tho'. even so we did get thru the hard bits quicker and could split > up to > >do the easy st

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Dean S Wilson wrote: > How did you establish who would make good pairings? Was it done by > trying to place two equals or was it done more on a mentoring level of > a very experienced coder and a less experienced one? (I've not read > that much on XP) We both were fairly expe

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread Dean S Wilson
-Original Message- From: Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I did a little pair programming at emap - I probably wasn't doing it right >tho'. even so we did get thru the hard bits quicker and could split up to >do the easy stuff. I think it made a difference but then I was mostly >being

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:24:24AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: > > > Now, I freely admit that I have partaken of the Extreme Programming > > Kool-Aid, and dammit I want to do it. > > I want to try it too. I'm not convinced by all of it - pair program

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, you wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:24:24AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: > > > Now, I freely admit that I have partaken of the Extreme Programming > > Kool-Aid, and dammit I want to do it. > > I want to try it too. I'm not convinced by all of it - pair programming > for e

Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

2001-01-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:24:24AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: > Now, I freely admit that I have partaken of the Extreme Programming > Kool-Aid, and dammit I want to do it. I want to try it too. I'm not convinced by all of it - pair programming for example - but so much of the other stuff seems