| Phlip 2004-07-04, 10:00 am |
| Editor wrote:
> Will Pair Programming Really Improve Your Project?
>
> This article takes a critical look at the pair programming practice
>
> http://www.methodsandtools.com/arch...chive.php?id=10
Ain't it great how XP-bashing can drive up those low hit counts?
Matt Stephens and Doug Rosenberg pair-bashed to provide us with words of
wisdom like: "Design documents provide a record of design decisions. This
makes them particularly helpful for novice programmers to explore the
thinking behind the design, as described by the more experienced senior
programmers. If the team is becoming lost in a sea of changed minds and
refactorings, the design document often helps to remind the team members of
why they originally decided to do something in a particular way. There's
usually a pretty good reason.".
Yeah, refactor back towards the design document, written when we knew the
least about our implementation, folks!
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Phlip
http://industrialxp.org/community/b...tUserInterfaces
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