At the recent Agile on the beach conference I was chatting to Paul Massey who runs
BlueFruit Software in Redruth (which, by the way, is a great company to work if you're looking for a job as an embedded developer). I was reminded of something Paul mentioned to me a while back that relates to pair-programming.
He and a friend played
go against other people on a server. Their
go rankings were 8k and 9k respectively.
Interestingly, they then played against other people
as a pair. And their joint-ranking
went up to 6k. Paul writes:
When I play go, I have a problem that I struggle to find the patience for strategic thinking. I combat this problem by doing strategic thinking when my opponent is playing and tactical thinking when it's my turn. Yesterday I realised the parallel with pair programming, i.e. tactical thinking when at the keyboard, and strategic thinking when away from the keyboard. Both are important.
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