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Subject: Re: Extreme Programming - The Most Productive Way To Produce Code

Author: Oliver Roese

Date: 11:23:39 01/13/03

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On January 13, 2003 at 10:44:15, Graham Laight wrote:

>In so many jobs, two people working as a team are worth far more than the sum of
>two individuals working on their own. In fact, partners (who get on well) tend
>to run rings around their solo counterparts.
>
>This has been found to be true of programming. Two people working at a single
>workstation (one keyboard, one mouse, one screen), have been found to produce
>MORE good code than two people working with two workstations. Strangely, this
>does not surprise me.
>
Ok, i believe you may be right, but i cant tell others (especially at my job)
about it, since i dont have any facts to tell them.
Can you argue about your opinion?
Are their studies about that?

Oliver

>Here's a link to a well thought out, highly sophisticated analysis of extreme
>programming, which is also mercifully brief - highly recommended reading!
>
>http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20030111.html
>

Somewhat disappointing;)

>-g
>
>n.b. - this post was originally made in CTF, but I have been requested to post
>it in CCC as well. The thinking is that because chess programmers work on their
>own, they'll want to disagree.


Oliver



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