How do you know your unpaired programmers are any more efficient ? I sometimes think the single/pair is comparable to the old fairytale of the rabbit and the tortoise. Pairing doesn’t drift off into days of counter-productive work. I have no idea of how often I’ve seen developers spending weeks working on stuff that later … Read more
Unless you use pair programming extensively in your real-world development, I’d be very hesitant to use this. I’ve met any number of high-quality professional developers who have mentioned a strong aversion to pair programming and whose skill would not be well-judged in such a process.
A good alternative to VNC is screenhero. It’s very lightweight, but unfortunately does not support Linux. Floobits creates a pairing session at the IDE level. It supports many popular IDEs from IntelliJ, Eclipse, to emacs.