Re: Re: Practice: Pair Programming

I suspect that a jazz band is often in communal flow. I suspect that pairs
attain a flow state as well.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
This is how I develop software.
Take the parts that make sense to you.
Ignore the rest.

On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 10:35:11 AM, csteinbach2003 wrote:

> I like that you say both are necessary.  The book People Ware talks
> about 'flow' rather than focus and how anything other than solitude
> will disrupt flow.  I don't think pairing is so much about flow as it
> is about focus and neither is a substitute for the other. Ideas that
> are not well formed or difficult to articulate are too easily
> dismissed during a dialog.  I always appreciate having some time to
> myself to develop ideas at least to the point that they are
> communicable.  On the other hand, if I know roughly the direction
> development is taking, then pairing provides the focus to explore that
> direction thoroughly.

End quotation from csteinbach2003, on Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 10:35:11 AM




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