Comments on: 7 Reasons Why Pair Programming Makes Sense http://blog.mattwynne.net/2009/08/18/7-reasons-why-pair-programming-makes-sense/ Matt Wynne taking it one tea at a time Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:31:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeffrey Fredrick http://blog.mattwynne.net/2009/08/18/7-reasons-why-pair-programming-makes-sense/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Jeffrey Fredrick Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:56:35 +0000 http://blog.mattwynne.net/2009/08/18/7-reasons-why-pair-programming-makes-sense/#comment-739 <p>I think the "More Focus" point probably has the biggest short term impact.</p> <p>Scott Ambler has a great story of taking an pairing-skeptical manager for a walk through their development team. They counted every developer who had their IDE open and who was facing the monitor as "coding" and found that only 20% fell into that category. So if everyone is pairing it isn't a 50% loss of productivity but a better than 100% gain!</p> <p>Longer term I think the other items you mention are where the real benefit is, but for the short term and for overcoming objections "More Focus" is a real selling point.</p> I think the “More Focus” point probably has the biggest short term impact.

Scott Ambler has a great story of taking an pairing-skeptical manager for a walk through their development team. They counted every developer who had their IDE open and who was facing the monitor as “coding” and found that only 20% fell into that category. So if everyone is pairing it isn’t a 50% loss of productivity but a better than 100% gain!

Longer term I think the other items you mention are where the real benefit is, but for the short term and for overcoming objections “More Focus” is a real selling point.

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