Re: XP and Pair Programming


Nick Malik [Microsoft] wrote:
> > No agenda, just casual empiricism. Perhaps a better indicator would be
> > to take a straw vote on a few of the comp programming newsgroups and
> > take a count.
>
> Oh, yeah... THAT'S scientific :-)
>

> Better to poll readers of a general purpose programming magazine.
>
I don't think that would work. There are very few programming
magazines left, and their readers would likely be unrepresentative.

> So I went looking for just such a poll. Didn't find it. If anyone knows of
> a general purpose programming magazine that has done a poll on agile
> methods, please let me know.
>
I think you'd have to pick a random sampling of firms, and poll
development managers. But probably nobody has the inclination to do
that :-)

I would be surprised if more than one half of one percent of
programmers practiced pair programming on a regular basis. I suspect
it's much less.

-- Daniel

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