“When I first heard I’d be pairing at the new job, I was a bit apprehensive and skeptical. Do I really have to sit next to some fat developer all day, 40 hours a week? When am I going to check my RSS feeds? What if the other developer is gassy or hasn’t showered? How am I going to listen to my totally awesome Death Metal if I can’t wear headphones? Will the other developer be constantly judging and correcting my code? Will pairing prevent me from hitting “the zone” where I’m just belting code out so fast that my fingers can’t keep up with my brain? Over the last five months, I’ve found answers to all of these questions: “no,” “often,” “that’s rough,” “easily,” “sort of,” and “YES, but that’s a good thing.””

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I Love Pair-Programming » Absolutely No Machete Juggling

This is a really, really great look at pair-programming for real, not the theoretical discussions you usually see. Pairing is one of the biggest Agile practices I’ve never been able to wrap my mind around but this post gets me a long way there.
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