[wpietri]

A former colleague of mine, one for whom I have great respect, is applying mobbing for this right now. So far, they think it's a great way to get and keep everybody on the same page.

I'm still skeptical of mob programming, although as somebody who's done a lot of pair programming I'm open to it. But the theory makes sense to me. Early on it's easy to make decisions or fall into habits that cause trouble later. Figuring out some of those initial choices strikes me as the best place to apply a lot of brainpower. Once the architecture is established, I'd expect things would be much easier to parallelize. (But I'd still keep pairing and frequent pair rotation to keep everybody in sync.)