No really!

This article from Crosstalk in 1996 is a positive gold mine. Scroll down to the section of the Two Person Team.

The two-person (2P) team implements the adage "Two heads are better than one." When this concept was first implemented in 1975, there was great concern the productivity gain could never offset the additional resource expense. The two-person approach places two engineers or two programmers in the same location (office, cubicle, etc.) with one workstation and one problem to solve. The team is not allowed to divide the task but produces the design, code, and documentation as if the team was a single individual.

I wonder how many XP zealots I've just upset by bringing this to wider attention? ;-) Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson,, XP, Extreme+Programming