http://www.pmhut.com/schedule-questions-pair-programming-and-the-pnr-curve Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:37:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.pmhut.com/schedule-questions-pair-programming-and-the-pnr-curve/comment-page-1#comment-30 Mishkin Berteig Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:54:28 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/schedule-questions-pair-programming-and-the-pnr-curve#comment-30 Mike, I feel like the options you present in your question at the end actually miss the true point of pairing... which has to do with communication. I have never seen pairing done in such a way that two people always work together as a pair. Rather, pairing is promiscuous: people switch pairs frequently throughout a day, iteration or project. This switching has two communication effects: 1) the human interaction and gradual diffusion of information as people switch pairs 2) helping everyone understand all parts of the work as a result of frequently working on many different things. From an estimation standpoint, I expect that neither of your two options is quite right. Rather, the third option is to continue as is with existing estimation and then encourage pairing to increase <strong>communication</strong>. Increased communication shows up in a number of different ways, not just efficiency: risk mitigation, accelerated individual and team learning etc. Mike, I feel like the options you present in your question at the end actually miss the true point of pairing… which has to do with communication. I have never seen pairing done in such a way that two people always work together as a pair. Rather, pairing is promiscuous: people switch pairs frequently throughout a day, iteration or project. This switching has two communication effects: 1) the human interaction and gradual diffusion of information as people switch pairs 2) helping everyone understand all parts of the work as a result of frequently working on many different things. From an estimation standpoint, I expect that neither of your two options is quite right. Rather, the third option is to continue as is with existing estimation and then encourage pairing to increase communication. Increased communication shows up in a number of different ways, not just efficiency: risk mitigation, accelerated individual and team learning etc.

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