In 3.5 years as a consultant I spent more time talking (with clients) about pair programming than any other topic. In general, client developers had never properly paired and had no desire to do so.

Have you ever wondered what Pair Programming is, or how it works? “If I were to summarize Pair Programming in four words, it would be ‘Two programmers, one pencil.’ ” One day I was just listening to a ...

An agile team of bright, talented developers struggles to deliver. They’ve taken on unplanned work fixing production defects that weren’t caught; there is more front end development than back end ...