Re: pair programming

[Josh More <jmore () starmind org>]

The goal of pair programming is for each pair to function as a single
unit.  Tracking what one person does vs the other does not make sense.

The goal of no shared logins is to track each change down to a single
unit.  Having a generic account for people to use when pairing would
not solve that need.

If you have a stringent auditor, you would be best served by
generating a new account for each pair and shut it down whenever a
pair changes.  If you have a looser auditor, you can assign each
person a "pairing" account for them to use when serving as a pair.
This account can be linked to the pairing records to identify which
pair accessed the resources. Whoever is running the keyboard at the
beginning of a pairing shift will just login with their pairing
account. It's not quite as logically clean, but a whole lot more
practical.

-Josh More

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Matthew Perry <mlperry () gmail com> wrote:
> My company is doing paired programming to become more agile in their
> development.  We would like the devs to login using their personal AD
> account when logging into the computer, but they are pushing for a shared
> account to allows for easier switching and pair changes.  Does anyone have
> any experience with this type of environment?
>
> Do we meet in the middle and give them a shared AD account that can only
> login to their teams machines?  This way they will still get the group
> policy settings vs using a shared local account, which is what they are use
> to doing.  I know we would lose the accountability of who logged into the
> machine, but at least we are getting some of the GP locked down settings.
>  Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.
>
> FYI.....we also have to worry about linux and mac dev machines in our
> environment as well.
>
>
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