>Experts paired with novices need to move as slow as a novice I actually find this to be highly effective for times experts aren't working at expert speeds. So

>Experts paired with novices need to move as slow as a novice I actually find this to be highly effective for times experts aren't working at expert speeds. Sometimes you just get off a big project or have been heads down a couple days and it's nice to relax and talk things through with someone else writing code instead of trying to churn it out yourself. Likewise, novice and expert can be context dependent. Novice doesn't necessarily mean they can't write code but they might not be very familiar with the domain. The alternatives are read/write docs or have a meeting? The former is asynchronous so there will envitably be back and forth before the docs have useful info. The latter is similar to pairing except no code is being written and information is just being queued for use later