I just looked at [1] which compares the productivity of a pair of programmers to that of two individual programmers. The paper claims an increase of 15% in man-

I just looked at [1] which compares the productivity of a pair of programmers to that of two individual programmers. The paper claims an increase of 15% in man-hours while the author of this piece is claiming that a pair of programmers is 15% slower than a single programmer! (Note: I've never used pair-programming and don't really care one way or the other. But this analysis seems terrible to me.) [1] The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.PDF http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.P...