Curiously enough my personal best-ever development experience was with exactly the 90m regular pair switching talked about here where we paired the most/least e

Curiously enough my personal best-ever development experience was with exactly the 90m regular pair switching talked about here where we paired the most/least experienced on particular stories. It was brilliant. Great fun. Energising. Hugely productive. Especially when I was the most experienced person on the pair. I don't understand Arlo Belshee's emphasis on the lack of flow in this setup in his original paper. Personally I've found the combination of good pairing + TDD to be a recipe for getting into flow very quickly. It seems designed to produce those little nuggets of problem/reward that suck you in and keep you grinding away. The practice certainly hasn't worked for everybody (check out Mitch Lacey's try at using it for example http://www.mitchlacey.com/resources/adventures-in-promiscuous-pairing-seeking-beginner%E2%80%99s-mind http://www.mitchlacey.com/resources/adventures-in-promiscuou...) - but having tried it once I would be keen to try it again and try and figure out the contexts that are causing it to work/fail.