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Any idea how much of that is to juice margins by billing two people minimum? Surely the work is not completed twice as quickly.
by shostack 10y ago
Any idea how much of that is to juice margins by billing two people minimum? Surely the work is not completed twice as quickly.
- twic 10y agoI work at Pivotal, although in London. We do indeed insist on doing all programming paired. I honestly don't think that's because of margins, though - it's that everyone buys into the XP idea that it's the best way to program. I don't think it does much for margins, because you have to spend twice as much on developers to get that double revenue, so the margin is the same. Our normal thing is to form joint teams of Pivotal and client developers, and in that situation, pairing is also a really good way to teach the clients our way of doing things.