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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by alasdair_ on Friday January 03, 2020 @07:30AM (#21945332)
Pair programming all the time comes from XP. Almost no one does it, not even Kent Beck. In fact, the only place that I know of that tried "real" eXtreme Programming was the Chrysler Compensation project, which ultimately failed.

I'd be amazed that Pivotal actually does pair programming all the time, except that they are in the business of selling tools to facilitate exactly this process.

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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by jacques_chester on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:13AM (#21960433)
Many Pivotal teams do full time pair programming. Many don't. Pivotal Labs is pretty close to 100% because of its teaching role. Large parts of R&D practice 100% as a default with many local variations. Other parts of R&D don't practice anything resembling pairing.

All of this is presumably going to be in flux, now that the acquisition by VMware is complete.

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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by UK-Al05 on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:24PM (#21949932)
I've been in tons of agile places that do pair programming.
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