Comments on: 21 ways to hate pair programming

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:57:08 +0000

Great list! Really good amplification. I’m guilty of 1 and 21. I think pair programming must start from this list.

By: aimee.mychores.co.uk

aimee.mychores.co.uk — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:21:01 +0000

Really good list. I suffer from different mistakes depending who i’m pairing with.

One of my worst habits is not on your list:

Dictate to your pair. Because you are awesome and your partner is just a secretary to type your wonderful code for you!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:12:42 +0000

Nice list, I only came up with five.

http://mikevalenty.blogspot.com/2009/05/5-ways-to-fail-at-pair-programming.html

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The Art of Pair Programming « The Art of Software Development — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:00:46 +0000

[...] don’t bother me. If you did give PP a try and failed to get good results, I must press you to check whether you did PP properly. If you think you did and still didn’t like PP, then please leave a comment explaining why. [...]

By: Ilja Preuß

Ilja Preuß — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:51:20 +0000

A good remedy for 1 is a second keyboard. It takes a little getting used to, because you need a new protocol for switching drivers, but then it works just great.

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Agile Pair Programming should be amended. | eval(code) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:39:35 +0000

[...] but the problem happens to good pairs when one of them had an ‘off day’, etc (see: 21 Ways to Hate Pair Programming). Another problem is accountability of ‘pairs’. If two people are working together on a [...]

By: Aman King

Aman King — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:55:09 +0000

Hey, thanks for putting up that list. It’s so funny how you can identify yourself doing those things on occasion (hopefully rare ones). Plus, it’s a good list to share with those who’ve tried pairing for some time but are still trying to get used to it.

By: William Pietri

William Pietri — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:06:31 +0000

Heh. The one I used is digital, which helps a lot. Still, there was definitely a feeling of pressure at first. It was useful pressure, though. 10 minutes is a much shorter period of time when you have the keyboard. :-)

By: Daniel Lucraft

Daniel Lucraft — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:47:39 +0000

I have a chess clock. :) But it ticks. Not sure I could handle the pressure.

By: William Pietri

William Pietri — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:24:50 +0000

Great point, Daniel. Per your request, I have added numbers.

One way to find out if you’re a keyboard hog is to get a chess clock. It worked wonders for me.