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At Stats Perform, Engineering Manager Brad Pederson said that having two employees simultaneously think about different ways to solve a problem has led to an improved set of solutions. Those solutions ...

Paired work helps reduce cognitive overload because each person can be more focused on their role, but since it requires ...

Scientists investigated the advantages and perceptions of pair programming from the programmer’s standpoint. Texas Tech professor Miguel Aguirre-Urreta and his colleagues investigated the advantages ...

Pair programming and test-driven development are some of the practices that are most often talked about and least often actually understood. So I’ve decided to undertake the task to teach myself to ...

Editor’s note: Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering of Toronto’s Xtreme Labs. Before joining the Xtreme team, Farhan held the positions of Chief Software Architect at I Love Rewards, the Head of Search ...

We’ve all heard the fable of "The Tortoise and the Hare." We have likely ignored the lesson of the fable that slow and steady wins the race. Nowhere is it more apparent that we’ve forgotten what the ...

Open-plan offices, in particular, seem an impressively terrible idea. “Open plan layouts create massive distraction, damaging productivity,” according to a recent analysis by the U.K.’s Channel 4. See ...