Re: XP Requirement Analysis?

From: paul campbell (p.au.lc_at_objectvision.DOT.co.DOT.uk)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:30:16 +0100

"Mark Nicholls" <nicholls.mark@mtvne.com> wrote in message
news:2sntc9F1nm9l8U1@uni-berlin.de...

> So why do I believe that these enforced absences from my keyboard are the
> most productive?
>
> because I can think.
>
> clearly.
>
> without the clutter of code and a keyboard.
>
> I can model and abstract, I can see new simpler ways of what I've spent
the
> last 2 hours 'evolving' in my development tools.
>
> Simplicity is the key, and I find *not* sitting in front of a computer
with
> a pencil and a piece of paper for thirty minutes to be the best way to
> derive simplicity and *then* return to the toil at the keyboard.

This is where pairing comes in though. In general one person is thinking
tactically and the other strategically at any one moment in time (i.e. they
swap roles often). If both people in a pair are spending all thier time
thinking
about the actual line of test/code under production at that moment then they
are IMO doing it wrong. Infact I would expect (and actively encourage) a
pair programmer to spend a much higher propertion of thier time just
thinking
and not physically coding than the average lone programmer.
Additional synergy comes from the fact that there is always someone else
equally knowledgeable about the problem for the strategic thinker of the
pair to bounce his ideas off.

Infact now that I think about it, this is one of the main reasons why
pairing
works so well - you only have one keyboard between two people so you are
forcing them to spend more time thinking.

Paul C.

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