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megaadam wrote:
Have you seen a lot different teams, and team sizes?


I have actually.
I once sat in a cold server room -- part of the punishment -- to do pair-programming under the tutelage of a far superior contractor dev. This was very early on with C# 2001 or so and I did learn some things. But mine was simply to nod my little head and listen to Master-Pair-Programmer so it was easy.
There were over 100 devs at that location -- attempting and failing to rewrite a LOS (Loan Origination System) at a large mortgage bank -- well they only spent $75 million before giving up. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

I've also worked with contractors who've written "XML parsers that are faster than microsoft's".
That was the contractor's reasoning when I asked him why he wrote his own when there were perfectly good libraries in .NET.
He had no concept of DOM parsing. Hmmm | :| His was parsing everything into a string and yes that is faster than DOM parsing. In that case he would've been the Master-Pair-Programmer had I ever had to be paired with him.

I've been part of teams of one and large teams and small teams over the years.
Most of the time in larger corps it is the one with the most political pull who makes the design/code decisions. The other nods his little head. Smile | :)

Small(er)(ish) teams/companies give a bit more autonomy -- and if done properly has oversight and input / code reviews etc. We even work quite closely but pairing would drive me crazy.

Pairing feels more like a short-circuit attempt to fast communication more than anything, because *no one in companies really know how to communicate what they are actually doing with their code.

*an extreme statement that no one knows but basically right. Big Grin | :-D
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