tailieunhanh - Extreme Programming in Perl Robert Nagler phần 4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'extreme programming in perl robert nagler phần 4', công nghệ thông tin, kỹ thuật lập trình phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Yea Whatever Not everybody in my company can sustain pair programming all the time. We try to flex to each other s styles when we can. Sometimes it just doesn t work. One of my partners gets what I call the yea whatevers when he s had enough pair programming. He ends up saying yea whatever whenever there s some type of disagreement. The yea whatevers only happen after too many conflicts in one session. Our personalities would start hindering our efforts if we continued pair programming so we know it s time to stop. XP promotes people over process first and a set of best practices second. If the people dynamics aren t right I don t recommend forcing pair programming. It s taken this programmer and me years to figure out what works best for us. We didn t start out pair programming when we first started working together and we don t pair continuously all the time now. Most of the time we pair when we run into a roadblock and we know we need help. This also turns out to be a good way to introduce pairing that is waiting until you get a hard problem before you bring in a partner. It may be something you do already possibly at a whiteboard. Next time try sharing a keyboard instead. You will be surprised how much more effective it is to communicate through the code than in a conference room. A whiteboard solution is theoretical and code is being there. It s like the difference between planning to climb a mountain and hooting in unison when you both reach the top. Coding together means helping each other with the inevitable wrong turns and near falls. You gain mutual respect and learn to trust each other. You can t pair program effectively without these qualities and the best way to get there is by working side by side on a hard problem. Gumption Traps Bad hair days are when nothing seems to go right. Robert Pirsig says this happens when you run into a gumption trap something that saps your energy discourages you and causes you to make mistakes. Some examples .