Swarm Programming - Scaling Pair Programming

February 03, 2010 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

This is another tidbit from Dan North at the parkbench panel discussion on the Agile Testing, Specifications and BDD exchange.

If I remember correctly the topic of the discussion was about the topic if software engineering is really an engineering discipline or rather a craftsmanship:

Are you sure that what you do is software engineering? NASA is doing software engineering!

In commercial software the average cost for a line of code is estimated at 5$.
At NASA the average cost for a line of code is 5'000$.

They are not just Pair Programming, what they do could be called Swarm Programming!