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XP without Pair Programming? Say what?
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After talking with them more, I don't think they even know why they want to do XP styled development. I do know that when I ask and try to talk about it people have varying degrees of understanding or thought about more agile practices in general. M…
Oh, and if the team is not yet mature enough to come up with communication, discipline, team building, and the like as advantage of XP, then there's probably a lot of education left to do. They may not be ready to even succeed with XP at all, yet.…
My words would be something like the following:
Why are we / you doing XP? And why do you think XP works? {follow their answers, asking more questions to guide them to saying something about "improved communications", "better learning", "better tea…
That's makes perfect sense to me. Including planning a code retreat in Columbus. ;) Give me a call some time and we'll do it.
Thinking paired programming slows down development assumes that the constraint to implementing a story is speed at which you can type in the code. The constraint is the speed at which you can determine the proper logic. This is more than twice as fa…
Does anyone have a good analogy or advice for some folks I know that are considering implementing an "XP practice" that purposely excludes Pair Programming?
I need some words of encouragement. No need for harsh rebukes here. We want to bring others…
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