Episode 16: Pair programing doesn't stink

Somewhere around just 20% of people do pair programming. It seems to be an incredibly effective technique, according to people who follow it. I go over some of those reasons and micro case studies of organizations having success with pair programming. It seems like the right thing to do. My Pairing column from October at The Register — The comments section is especially good for common sentiment about pair programming.Charles Lowell — We used to do a podcast.Gartner survey on pair programming adoption — I got the number wrong: it's actually around 20%, not just 10%. Mark Ardito goes over HCSC’s astonishing success with pair programmin — They thought it'd take 12-15 weeks to get their MVP done, but it actually took 5.5 to 6 weeks we finish. Phil Horowitz talks about how exhausting pairing is at first — At Perforce: "This makes pair programming intense, especially at the beginning. At the end of the first day, I couldn't go home. Before I could face hum