Well we have pair programming now, but unfortunately that has all the problems of two surgeons with none of the benefits of complimentary skills. For a while I

Well we have pair programming now, but unfortunately that has all the problems of two surgeons with none of the benefits of complimentary skills. For a while I was paring with someone where we did take on more of a surgical team model that worked quite well. The other guy was the c++ and domain expert cranking out code and I was the unix, git, etc expert and acting as the toolmaker and "magic spell" provider. That said, in a real surgical team some of members make considerably more money than the others so I doubt we'll see it take off in our industry.