I’ve been working in programming for a few years and I think I really dislike Pair Programming; I understand how it is but I often find it mind-numbingly dull. I have a feeling I’m doing it wrong but I feel like as a part of a dev team tasks should be broken into discrete enough chunks that a single person can just blitz through the work… Maybe it’s just me, what are y’all thoughts on the matter?
If you have two devs pair programming, at least one of them is being slowed tremendously. It should be used very sparingly and only in junior/senior mentoring attempts. Putting two senior devs on pair programming is nearly always just slashing your dev productivity.
I’ve seen devs take 3 days to write code in pair programming that either one could’ve completed on their own in 4 hours or so.
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If you have two devs pair programming, at least one of them is being slowed tremendously. It should be used very sparingly and only in junior/senior mentoring attempts. Putting two senior devs on pair programming is nearly always just slashing your dev productivity.
I’ve seen devs take 3 days to write code in pair programming that either one could’ve completed on their own in 4 hours or so.