Thanks for your insights as well Rick! I just finished having an initial discussion with my boss about these concepts. And, it so happens - many years ago HE himself did the Pair Prog concept you mentioned - with a buddy of his - to rapidly develop a specialized system in like 3 months. This was Many years ago - and they actually did it with ZBasic at the time!
At this point - what we are looking to do here is a kind of modified approach. We have a team of tech support people here - who test out system modifications (done in VFP) and support our clients. These people are very well versed in the system, of course, and will be paired up with a programmer - to help those programmers developing the C#/.Net system. Especially since the C#/.Net developers are NOT familiar enough with the current VFP system. Although its not Extreme or Agile programming - our "Extreme" approach will Hopefully help accelerate the development process. As for myself - although I am not a C#/.Net developer (although I Did take this job in the hopes of getting into that technology) - I will help out the development process by acting as part of a QA team (myself paired up with another guy). Should be fun! :-) -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Schummer Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] Extreme Programming & Such... >> I was curious to know if anyone here has done development using the Extreme Programming paradigm. And, if so, can you give me any feedback to its successful or Un-successful usage?<< When two people are programming on one computer this is referred to as Pair Programming. This concept is part of several methodologies including Extreme Programming (XP). XP is a tight iteration development methodology. You can find more details here: http://www.extremeprogramming.org. Pair programming is something I have a lot of experience doing. My take is that it is boring has heck when you are working on something trivial (assembling a quick data entry form), but is great when you are working on complicated code, debugging, design, or learning something new. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a1404254...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
