It's a useful thing to do once in a while with your team. However, like pair programming you should not obsess about doing it all the time or forcing people to

It's a useful thing to do once in a while with your team. However, like pair programming you should not obsess about doing it all the time or forcing people to do it. But it's a great tool, especially if you have a few juniors on your team. Not everybody is a natural coach and sticking everybody in a meeting where they solve stuff together tends to be a great way to nudge seniors into teaching juniors a few things. I tend to sneak in group editing sessions in my team, usually with some vague goal of looking at some feature together or figuring out some issue. I just tell one of them something like "hey can you share your screen?" and before you know it it's 3 hours later. Basically, staring at the same code with a group of people is a great way to spread knowledge in a casual way while actually solving some issues. The issue solving is a nice bonus but it's the knowledge spreading that really counts. You pull people slightly out of their comfort zones by making them work on a topic that isn't necessarily their specialty so they learn a few new things. And they pay attention to how others work. One surprisingly useful thing is that the way people use tools; or even which tools they prefer can provide learning points for others. Somebody will use some neat key combination or some arcane editor feature (e.g. multi selecting bits of text) and you see multiple people doing that some time later. So, this is where I disagree with the article: the last thing you want is everybody using some uniform development environment. Let people use what they want to use show what they can do with those tools. And in case they are being clumsy, somebody will tell them "why don't you just ..." and end up learning something. And finally, they get used to solving stuff together instead of being lone wolfs. I love it when I see people spontaneously decide to hop on discord for an hour or so to solve an issue. Often all it takes is just the realization that help is a chat message away and you can just share a screen and look at stuff together and figure it out.