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I was wondering how estimates and estimates-based-scheduling should work when you have some cases that are worked on using pair programming.

Only one person can estimate but if both people are creating timesheets working on the case, this will effect the estimate history for the person that created the estimate.

Here's a couple specific questions:

Would it be best to remove these from the estimation history?
If a team uses pair programming for all their cases, should the pairs try to take turns with who is responsible for entering the estimate?
Does anyone have any better ideas I'm not thinking of based on actual experience using FogBugz in a pair programming environment?

edited Jan 3 2012 at 23:38

asked Dec 13 2011 at 22:39

bdd
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Matthias · Answer 1 · 2012-06-24 11:52:01Z UTC

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Did you get a good answer in the meantime?

answered Jun 24 at 11:52

Matthias
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Not really. The best we came up with was having the primary person do the estimate and log their time against that case and the other person just make a schedule item to log their time against. It won't mess up person 1's estimate but still works for scheduling and time tracking. However, this still doesn't work for true XP style pair programming where the estimate really should be together since you trade off keyboard duties on a regular interval. – bdd Dec 3 at 15:56

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