Pair programming can result in engineering burnout, lower-quality software and disengaged engineers when used inappropriately. Trivial tasks, configuration changes, spikes or problems that have ...

Pairing Stations In my experience, the single largest step towards successfully adopting pair programming is getting proper pairing stations.

One day I was just listening to a tech podcast about software development techniques and heard about Pair Programming.

While pair programming offers a number of benefits to an organization and to individual engineers, the process is exhausting. Pair programmers must walk carefully through each line of code they write.

Pair programming is not about one person simply watching what another person is doing– in effective pairing, the partners are often working at different levels of abstraction, one person ...

Remote pair programming can be an extremely powerful tool, it's a form of social programming. When pairing remote, you need a lot more setup and more tooling in place, so that the two team members ...

If the dynamics of code inspections have changed in the past three decades, how should we inspect now? Matt Heusser suggests that pair programming principles could provide some, but not all, of ...

Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering of Toronto's Xtreme Labs. This post is a response to (former Xtremer) Jon Evans's Pair Programming Considered Harmful? You’re in a car driving 100 miles per ...

If the ideal for pairing is soulmate-level bonding, the reality can be more like an endless bad blind date.