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title: "Dear Diary, Pair Programming is FUN!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/2/24/dear-diary-pair-programming-is-fun.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/2/24/dear-diary-pair-programming-is-fun.html"
published: "2008-02-24T13:29:18"
updated: "2008-02-24T13:29:18"
tags: ["Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Dear Diary It's been over a year since my last real pair programming exercise, in a real company as part of a real coding job. Today I finally got to do it again, and it felt great. There is nothing like the open…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Dear Diary, Pair Programming is FUN!

By Roy Osherove February 24, 2008 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 24, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

Dear Diary

It's been over a year since my last real pair programming exercise, in a real company as part of a real coding job. Today I finally got to do it again, and it felt great. There is nothing like the open discussion and exchange of ideas, on design, coding standards, and other things, with a peer.

I hope to bring myself in the coming future into this situation more and more often.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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