The costs and benefits of pair programming

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Improving the CS1 experience with pair programming (2003, background): “Research results [2, 8, 11] indicate that pair programmers produce higher quality code in about half the time when compared with solo programmers.”
Empirical Studies of Pair Programming for CS/SE Teaching in Higher Education: A Systematic Literature Review (2011, unknown): “Ç”
Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development (2009, unknown): “Therefore, the words “in a timely manner” are included in the deﬁnition to illustrate that it is important to consider speed of response, but that it is relative to the nature of the change being made.”
Evaluating Pair Programming with Respect to System Complexity and Programmer Expertise (2007, unknown): “among developers [5], [10], [13], [17], [27], [29], [41], [42],”
The effects of pair-programming on performance in an introductory programming course (2002, background): “Despite the anecdotal evidence, many managers and programmers who have no experience with collaborative programming remain skeptical [ 5 ], assuming it will be too costly in terms of scarce programmer hours, or that it will slow programmers down.”