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 ...

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 ...

Ferris Bueller and his friends have nothing on Solstice. In homage to Bueller’s antics playing hooky in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Solstice employees can play hooky with a coworker once a ...

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Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. The panelists discuss designing platform ...

Have you ever wondered what Pair Programming is, or how it works? “If I were to summarize Pair Programming in four words, it would be ‘Two programmers, one pencil.’ ” One day I was just listening to a ...

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 ...

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 ...