I've done my best programming toiling first with paper and pens for a few weeks, slowly reducing the spaghetti domain requirements into an elegant graph formali

I've done my best programming toiling first with paper and pens for a few weeks, slowly reducing the spaghetti domain requirements into an elegant graph formalism that has proven to be understandable and extensible. After the code was in place pair programming was a fantastic way to share understanding of the code. This mandatory XP really is not suitable for all environments.