How to distribute a task among several programmers?

Question

In a project, how do you assign a task among programmers?

Do you distribute the task by use or by class? Which one do you think is most effective?

I plan to assign a task by class. I can come up with an architectural design and give them an interface for their implementation.

Answer 1

I would advise doing this on a class basis if you are not working on a very short project. You need to think ahead and plan for changes to be made in the future. If you have people who know only one particular class, you tend to be inaccessible at the moment when you like them the most (for example, sick, on vacation, etc.), and your other team members will not be able to help, because they do not know their code.

The use of precedents is based on working better, and it really helps get people to do peer code reviews in order to cross them with each other.