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Marc Clifton7-Jun-17 13:50
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kdmote8-Jun-17 5:06
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To all the nay-sayers in this thread, I humbly suggest that you may be missing out on some very productive development sessions.

Personally, I find nothing more envigorating than sitting around a whiteboard with a team of creative and engaged developers mapping out a strategy for a complex coding task... and then moving to a computer and working together to wire it up. It feels like being in a group of surgeons collaborating on a complex surgerical procedure, or being on a team at Pixar creating a new movie.

Somebody in the thread mentioned the boredom of watching someone else type, but that misses the point: I'm never bored in group programming because I'm constantly working things out in my head, evaluating ramifications, anticipating next steps.

Obviously this type of work is not for everybody, but if you've never had the privilege of working together on a common goal with a creative team, don't miss the next opportunity to try it. It's addictive.

(Pro-tip: putting the least-experienced person at the keyboard is one of the best ways I know to bring that person rapidly up to the level of the rest of the team.)

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